The natural language and ordering of the world as found in Adam and Eve's morning orison, and in Raphael's description of the system...

A fine essay by Joan Bakewell about reading, the work of contemplation, and the precarious situation of public libraries in the UK. A BBC po...

Jutta sends a note: In the latest PMLA they were advisements for several Milton books by Duquesne U P.   (800 666-2211) Visionary Milton. ...

If we needed assurance that Paradise Lost breaks neatly into thirds, consider the opening of Book 9 : NO more of talk where God or Angel ...

That is the epithet assigned to Giordano Bruno by Pierre Bayle, according to this brief account of Bruno's life and thought. Bruno w...

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...