Hooke, Micrographia In this interview, novelist Neal Stephenson touches on a peculiar aspect of the age of Milton and Newton: The medieval ...

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Anyone who subscribes to the New York Review of Books should have a look at Stephen Greenblatt's piece, "The Lonely Gods." He...

Little could be further from the dramatic turns of Milton's Lycidas than this simple expression of pure, helpless grief: By ways remote ...

Shaw sends us a link from this month's Harper's Mag marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible: KING JAMES, REVISED Hist...

From a review of Harold Bloom's latest book, The Anatomy of Influence . “The Anatomy of Influence” is Bloom’s effort — his last, he says...

Here's a poem composed by John Milton when he was in his teens. His deep acquaintance with Ovid among other ancients is apparent in the ...

As our reading of book 6 comes near to the end, a few things stood out in our discussion. To briefly summarize, Milton pulls out all the sto...

The chariot in Book 6 draws upon the vision in Ezekiel : The Biblical Merkabah See also: angelology According to the verses in Ezekiel and i...

Here's a tune by  Stefano Landi that Milton might have heard on his visit to Italy in 1638-39. If nothing else, the stylized structure ...

The perpetual contention between Athens and Jerusalem, Greco-Roman tradition and Biblical Scripture, turned up in concentrated form as I was...

As many know we're beginning Ovid's Metamorphoses at our regular Wednesday time on Feb. 16th. A separate blog will concern itself wi...