Jutta points us to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal that suggests that religion is a natural, biologically significant part of the...

Here's a brief outline of Book IV - our first view of Eden, Paradise, and our human ancestors. (A full outline can be found here ). ...

Looking back at Book III, one could very well call it the "book of light." It begins with the invocation to light, Bright  efflu...

jillybobww :  Hey ... lookee there. The word " Ides " is trending, and a certain pubescent vocal performer is not. Who says Twitt...

Jutta shared this illustration of Uriel, from this site : The image is an engraving in The Poetical Works of John Milton by W. Harley, ...

Gerry forwarded two notes from a Finnegans Wake List, which draw on the difficulties of grappling with the Wake to address the larger quest...

If anyone is seeking a richer set of notes for PL, a 1907 edition edited by A.W. Verity of Trinity College, Cambridge is available via Goog...

Krista Tippet interviews Robert Wright: Today, a public conversation with Robert Wright. His book The Evolution of God charts an intellec...

A fine article on walking, body language and more in Milton.

Since alchemy has come up a few times -- in hell, and again in heaven, and soon the Sun, here's a book about Newton that has a good chap...

Readers of this blog might find a new book of interest -- The Book of Firsts: 150 World-Changing People and Events from Caesar Augustus to ...

But in his way lights on the barren  Plaines Of  Sericana,  where  Chineses  drive With Sails and Wind  thir   canie   Waggons  light: so...