Columbia University is making a landmark in American scholarship and a monument to a great poet’s fame. Under the general editorship of Frank Allen Patterson, a staff of editors consisting of ...
John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...
In his “biography” of Paradise Lost, which is part of Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, Alan Jacobs traces Johnson’s and others’ responses to Milton and his ...
William Wordsworth had a habit of comparing himself to—and even being in competition with—John Milton. Once Wordsworth asked a friend what he thought was the greatest elegy of the English language.
Joe Moshenska’s new biography of poet John Milton, “Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton,” is a strange but captivating, book. The author draws his reader, not only into the life and world of ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Fiona Sampson MAKING DARKNESS LIGHT A Life of John Milton By Joe Moshenska Literary biography is ...
Great art is great not because it enters an academic curriculum, and neither is greatness affirmed by the awarding of prizes or titles. But great is not necessarily a vague term. It can indicate work ...
Dates from 1629 to 1631 have been proposed for this poem in the absence of any evidence. Whenever Milton wrote this aubade or dawn song, it is a small gem.It hearkens back to Elizabethan songs such as ...
A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker ...
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