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” ...

In Mihály Munkácsy’s painting “The Blind Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to His Daughters” (1877), a man dressed all in black except his for white Puritan collar sits in a chair, staring ...

When John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost,” (1667) his Satan famously stated, “better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” Satan was the villain of the piece, abandoning the Good and the ...

'Paradise Lost': How The Apple Became The Forbidden Fruit : The Salt Some 350 years ago, Milton's epic chronicled the Fall of Man, ... Satan heads eagerly toward a gathering of fellow devils, ...

As Paradise Lost continues, Satan becomes less sympathetic. He starts to appear more like a populist figure who uses the rhetoric of challenging the status quo — but really wants to seize power ...

Malcolm X read Paradise Lost in prison, sympathising with Satan, while AE Housman quipped that “malt does more than Milton can / To reconcile God’s ways to man”.

Satan is Reade’s antihero, but “Paradise Lost” is really Adam and Eve’s poem. The reader first spies them through Satan’s eyes when he enters Eden in Book IV. Much has been made of his ...

“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 goodness.