This is an excerpt from Chapman's award-winning essay on her experiences teaching inmates at Alabama's Donaldson prison. Two or three dozen inmates, clad in white coveralls, filter into the prison’s ...

In his “biography” of Paradise Lost, which is part of Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, Alan Jacobs traces Johnson’s and others’ responses to Milton and his ...

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon. After Trump lost the 2020 ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. II (Sale info: To Be Distributed). "In silence and with darkness compassed round, he wrote his immortal song, which found 'fit audience, though few.'" [P. 15 ...

Since John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in 1667, many artists have attempted to visualize the biblical epic. The three-minute video is not a faithful or exhaustive visualization of the ...