Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

For some reason, Shapiro tried to discuss Satan's role in poem Paradise Lost after conservatives called a Grammys performance evil.

He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about ...

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan.

Paradise Lost: The devil as an Adonis In this 1808 illustration by William Blake, entitled "Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels," Satan is depicted in human form, similar to the classical depictions ...

“ Paradise Lost has often resurfaced in moments of political polarisation, and here, it joined a re-energised Right,” Reade observes.

His political writings against censorship and tyranny were controversial at the time. Milton published “Paradise Lost,” an epic poem written in blank verse, in 1667. Experimental and radical when ...

The reader of “Paradise Lost” encounters the Garden of Eden at the same time that Satan does. Having leapt over the garden wall, Milton’s athletic antihero flies up into a tree to survey his ...