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 ...
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A War Over Heaven and Hell
“‘Paradise Lost’ is, surely, the greatest poem in English,” Alan Jacobs declares in his book on John Milton’s masterpiece, “but it is not lovable.” Few who know the poem would disagree with either ...
Today's Quote of the Day story reflects on John Milton’s powerful line from Paradise Lost about the mind’s ability to shape reality. The piece explains how our thoughts can turn the same situation ...
BLOOMINGTON — For 10 hours on Saturday, inside the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University, a dozen or so students, scholars and literature lovers read all 10,000-plus lines of "Paradise Lost." ...
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. II (Sale info: To Be Distributed). "In silence and with darkness compassed round, he wrote his immortal song, which found 'fit audience, though few.'" [P. 15 ...
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 163 (Sale info: $150.00). [Price noted by a contemporary hand.] 1859. Second Exhibition in New York of Paintings, the contribution of Artists of the French & ...
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