I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

News that Hollywood is to make the first feature film of Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost” fills me with mixed feelings: eager anticipation and foreboding. If the last such blockbuster, “Troy,” is ...

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 ...