Latent in Milton's rendering of Paradise in PL V is a richly imagined understanding of the world, humanity, the creator, and the purpos...

A few images about the fall  - more here , including works of Cranach, Chagall, Tintoretto, Brueghel and Poussin. Eve persuades Adam Hug...

In honor of Dylan Thomas's birthday: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roo...

Book V begins with "Now" and moves from dawn's "rosie steps" in Paradise to Raphael's account of an announcement...

A reminder that a nice outline of Paradise Lost can be found here .

Author and friend Peter D'Epiro (The Book of Firsts, Sprezzatura, What are the Seven Wonders of the World ) sends this virtual tour of t...

  then with voice   Milde , as when   Zephyrus   on   Flora   breathes, It's possible Milton saw Botticelli's Primavera while i...

We owe our acquaintance with this priceless bit of news to Shaw -- who is keeping up with us from Seattle: Like it or not, Western Civiliza...

The schedule for the 2010-11 Met Simulcast season offers two works by Wagner, along with ten other operas, including unusual works of Rossi...

Attempting to slot Nietzsche into a narrow, predictable pigeonhole is a doomed enterprise. With all the dialectical energy directed against ...

It struck me the other day that this blog is nearly at its fifth anniversary. Of course, the classics group has been in existence far longer...

NPR considers the possibility : A little-known poem has been retrieved from the Oxford University archives, which appears to reveal a 17th ...