John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an ...

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the ...

Experts have unearthed handwritten annotations made by the English poet They found he crossed out a lewd anecdote and dismissed it as inappropriate His work, Paradise Lost, is thought to be one of ...

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. Jefferson’s interest ...

That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

George Frederic Handel can be considered one of the greatest composers of all time based simply on his “Messiah.” But, in fact, Handel wrote more than 42 oratorios and was ...

John Milton, poet and writer, was born in London on 9th December 1608, a son of composer John Milton (d.1647) and his wife Sara (Jeffrey). He was educated at St Paul's School and Christ's College, ...

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.