That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai ...

John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an ...

Such is the legend of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” It may be an apocryphal story but feels true to the poem; it was as if God had filled the poet to the brim, until he had to be drained by ...

Rysbrack was the statuary who cut it. In his 1742 history of the Abbey J. Crull quotes the verses by John Dryden, usually given below Milton's picture in Paradise Lost, which were not inscribed on the ...

An annotation in the left margin has been identified as having been written by English poet, John Milton Handwritten notes by Paradise Lost poet John Milton have been identified in a copy of a ...