A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork.

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages.

Last year on Dec. 14, the Satanic Temple (TST) of Iowa’s sanctioned holiday display in the Iowa State Capitol rotunda was ...

An Atlanta attorney writes that many great works of literature offer wisdom about the political perils of revenge and ...

If you've ever heard of Abaddon, you might know him as a mysterious figure of destruction and judgment. In religious texts, Abaddon is the angel of the bottomless pit, a powerful being connected to ...

When I was younger and discovering classical music, I would occasionally hear a piece so magnificent, it would render me ...

Those characters, though, are foils, which is what Milton intended Satan to be — a figure set up to be righteously vanquished by God and his loyal angels. “Paradise Lost” tries to uphold a ...

Marriott describes it as a “desert of prose” blasting Peterson’s “symbological paranoia”, linking figures like John Milton’s Satan character in Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von ...

A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by Joshua Savage, Reedy Press. $27. Unlike your typical travel guide, in Secret ...