Shaw points us to two reviews of R. Crumb's illustrated The Book of Genesis : David Hajdu in the Times has a few images from the book , ...

The reception of Milton is interesting. He is clearly not everyone's cup of tea. Here's Dr. Johnson, whom we last encountered rippin...

While we look forward to hearing Milton's verse read aloud, and to thinking about it as we go, it's also possible we might look for ...

(Click to enlarge): These thoughts, which echo T.S. Eliot's thoughts about his first encounter with Dante's poetry, are from Phillip...

The annotated Dartmouth Online Edition of Paradise Lost is here . The site elsewhere contains much of his poetry and some prose works . The...

"E nglish has become less and less coherent as a discipline and, worse, has come near exhaustion as a scholarly pursuit. " Profess...

Jutta wanted to share this interesting discovery being studied at the University of Chicago: Images capture details of ancient tablets U. C...

Milton's rendering of scenes from Genesis was bold even for its time. Now R. Crumb has decided to offer his own take -- on the entire f...

Happened upon a blog that recounts the overview of Lawrence Principe, a historian of science, regarding the relation, the "intimate par...

into the Glorious Revolution (thanks to Mussy for the pointer): Englishmen and women throughout the country threatened one another, destroy...

Lycidas has been fraught with strong responses from readers since it first saw the light of print. Considered by many to be one of the great...

Hesiod, Theogony 820 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : " Typhoeus ; the hands and arms of him are mighty, and h...