Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

The 24 mezzotints that Martin produced for Paradise Lost were an instant commercial and critical success ... the two angels on the left, discovered Satan disguised as a toad, whispering evil thoughts ...

Muir, who knew Milton by heart, was thinking of Satan’s eloquent speeches in Paradise Lost rather than the Bible’s more taciturn serpent. The campaign to preserve Yosemite succeeded ...

Neither our own, but given . . . —Paradise Lost When the Devil comes up in conversation ... In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars ...

In ’Paradise Lost,’ John Milton portrayed Lucifer as ... Even cathedrals are adorned with Satan’s image as a reminder that evil is everywhere. But in the 19th century, when the philosopher ...

One thought rattled around my head all night while watching this radical take on Paradise Lost: how would God react to all of ...

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan. Jefferson’s interest ...