“ ‘Reason is but choosing’: freedom of thought and John Milton”
Roberta Klimt, for The British Library (September 3, 2018)
Milton’s Paradise Lost isn’t just a poem about man and god. It was the first “scientific epic”
Ed Simon, for Scroll.in (April 5, 2018)
“Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb”: the science of Paradise Lost
Ed Simon, for Aeon (March 28, 2018)
The Book List: What was on Charles Darwin’s reading list?
Alex Johnson, for The Independent (March 6, 2018)
A 350th-Anniversary Paradise Lost Reading List
Ed Simon, for The Millions (February 6, 2018)
Milton’s Morality: Fallen man and the fallen stature of Paradise Lost
Michah Mattix, for The Weekly Standard (January 19, 2018)
Monk fan of Milton’s Satan
Bharati Kanjilal, for The Telegraph (January 19, 2018)
Milton and Galileo: A closer look at a Florentine connection
Christine Contrada, for The Florentine (December 4, 2017)
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 95 – Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)
Robert McCrum, for The Guardian (November 27, 2017)
Milton’s blinding reading list
Marcus Nevitt, for The Spectator (November 25, 2017)
Milton’s Satan and the struggle for power
Islam Issa, for The Times Literary Supplement (November 14, 2017)
College celebrates Paradise Lost
The Hindu (November 9, 2017)
Appreciation found for Milton’s Paradise Lost
Laurie Merrill, for Grand Canyon University News Bureau (October 30, 2017)
Celebrating Milton’s Paradise Lost
David Loewenstein, for Verso, the blog of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Garden (October 30, 2017)
12 things you didn’t know about Paradise Lost
Islam Issa, for the New Statesman (October 19, 2017)
Why Arab Muslims love Paradise Lost – and their leaders hate it
Islam Issa, for The Guardian (September 1, 2017)
Egyptian academic accused of “glorifying Satan” after teaching Milton’s Paradise Lost
Raf Sanchez, for The Telegraph (August 22, 2017)
Paradise Lost Turns 350
Anthony Tedeschi, for the National Library (August 21, 2017)
When Milton met Galileo: the collision of cultures that helped shape Paradise Lost
Jamie Doward, for The Guardian (August 19, 2017)
“England hath need of thee”: appeal to save Milton’s Paradise Lost cottage
Alison Flood, for The Guardian (August 17, 2017)
Why Milton’s Paradise Lost is Translated so Much
Ben Panko, for Smithsonian (July 20, 2017)
Paradise Lost “translated more often in last 30 years than previous 300”
Alison Flood, for The Guardian (July 20, 2017)
John Milton’s publishing contract for Paradise Lost
Sandra Tuppen, for the British Library (April 27, 2017)
Why you should re-read Paradise Lost
Benjamin Ramm, for BBC (April 19, 2017)
Why Milton Still Matters
Boyd Tonkin, for The Spectator (March 18, 2017)
What’s So “American” About John Milton’s Lucifer? The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem Paradise Lost was a self-made, individualistic iconoclast
Edward Simon, for The Atlantic (March 16, 2017)
ETSU marathon reading session shows why Milton matters
Tony Casey, for Johnson City Press (November 17, 2016)
The Man Who Memorized 60,000 Words of Milton’s Paradise Lost
Faena Aleph (November 14, 2016)
Paradise abandoned: does it matter that John Milton’s former home is decaying?
Alison Flood, for The Guardian (October 23, 2015)
John Milton’s lost paradise finally discovered
Eleanore Robinson, for Express (October 22, 2015)
Behind the Lit: All of Europe Initially Loathes Paradise Lost
Adam Foley, for The Airship (August 13, 2014)
George Osborne places the devil at the heart of our political liturgy
Giles Fraser, for The Guardian (January 6, 2014)
How John Milton Invented Sci-Fi in the 1600s
Katy Waldman, for Slate (December 24, 2012)
Will Hollywood’s Paradise Lost lead us out of financial hell?
Randeep Ramesh, for The Guardian (December 14, 2011)
John Milton (8 parts)
Jessica Martin, for The Guardian (November 28, 2011 – January 23, 2012)
Part 1: a puzzling epic of heaven and hell (November 28, 2011)
Part 2: marrying the epic with the sacred (December 5, 2011)
Part 3: does Paradise Lost really attempt to justify God’s ways? (December 12, 2011)
Part 4: the language of a universal hubbub wild (December 19, 2011)
Part 5: the devil’s best lines (January 2, 2012)
Part 6: of course the poet can’s justify God (January 9, 2012)
Part 7: Adam, Eve and partnership (January 16, 2012)
Part 8: Adam and Eve find in loss a new paradise glimpsed (January 23, 2012)
Milton the poet was a bore and a prig. But on liberty he was majestic
Simon Jenkins, for The Guardian (December 11, 2008)
How well do you know John Milton?
The Guardian (December 9, 2008)
Milton versus Shakespeare: Could it be that we picked the inferior writer as our national poet?
Michael Caines, for The Guardian (December 9, 2008)
Milton’s republic
Terry Eagleton, for The Guardian (December 8, 2008)
Restoring Milton
Graham Ullathorne, for The Guardian (December 7, 2008)
John Milton, 400 Years Of “Justifying God To Man”
NPR (December 7, 2008)
12 hours of Paradise as Milton enters the internet age
University of Cambridge (October 22, 2008)
Milton Regained: A Helluva Party
Charles McGrath, for The New York Times (September 25, 2008)
John Milton
The Guardian (July 22, 2008)
Return to Paradise: The enduring relevance of John Milton
Jonathan Rosen, for The New Yorker (June 2, 2008)
Doing Battle With the Bard
[Review of Nigel Smith’s Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?]
Adam Kirsch, for The New York Sun (May 21, 2008)
Milton and Shakespeare: Battle of the Bards
Gary Taylor, for Time (May 15, 2008)
Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk
University of Oxford (April 29, 2008)
No Heaven for Milton
James Gardner, for The New York Sun (March 20, 2008)
A Giant’s Roaring, Faintly Echoed
Edward Rothstein, for The New York Times (March 15, 2008)
The devil’s advocate
Claire Tomalin, for The Guardian (February 29, 2008)
John Milton – our greatest word-maker
John Crace, for The Guardian (January 28, 2008)
John Milton: the poet who gave us Star Trek and The Matrix
Paul Bignell, for The Independent (January 13, 2008)