According to Verity, Milton relied heavily for his knowledge of geography upon Peter Heylyn , who wrote  Microcosmos: a Little Description o...

In a preceding post, ("The Air Jordan of English Poetry") we looked somewhat closely at an instance where a poetic hairball of al...

Not that faire field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flours Her self a fairer Floure by gloomie Dis Was gatherd, which cost Ceres all tha...

A review of Nigel Smith's book,  Is Milton Better than Shakespeare ? notes that Milton's sentences tend to be other than short: ...

From On Bones and Libraries , a meditation on Libraries by Colin Dickey -- the totalized book of Jerome, the illimitable books of men: E...

Here's the image discussed in some detail by Prof. Rogers in his 14th lecture : "It's as if they crawled out of the pages of ...

An interesting conversation with two Jesuit astronomers about science, faith, and certain compatibilities of -- and incitements to -- both i...

If time permits, when we get to Eve's account of her memory of her beginning, we might want to compare it with that of Adam. Adam's ...

Mussy notes this New Yorker piece , in which Daniel Mendelsohn reviews three recent fictions working with classical Greek materials: John Ba...

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...