According to an interview from this Studio 360 show about Darwin, the scientist was known to say that when he went ashore to do his researc...

The outline of Paradise Lost which we talked about today can be found here . Here's Milton's Nativity Ode , (here's the Dartmou...

As we know from Homer, Genesis, Rabelais, Joyce and many other writers, vast lists and catalogs have exercised a certain fascination even pr...

Early Notes for Paradise Lost from Christ's College Collection , Cambridg e Prof. Flannagan of Ohio University has a nice chronology of ...

It can be bewildering getting a closely calibrated sense of the scale and orientation of things in Paradise Lost, so it's worth remembe...

Mussy points us to this note on Dr. Johnson from Harold Bloom. It begins: It has been three centuries since Dr. Johnson was born, on Sept. ...

Arline points to this rich set of resources from Norton Anthology , offering illustrations and references for the immediate historical conte...

The Hebrew word for Angel is mala'ak . See here a list of angel appearances in the Old Testament. The C atholic Encyclopedia entry on ...

Wikipedia has a fairly detailed article on Satan . In the book of Job (Iyov), ha-satan is the title of an angel submitted to God. In Juda...

The Scriptural basis for the war in heaven is - you guessed it - Revelation . Before that, there is very little deviltry in the Bible. Here ...

A friend recently went to the Blake exhibit at the Morgan Library , and happened to mention that there were several of Blake's images i...

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 , ...