We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and ...

I posed this question to the 12 students in my class on John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost.” Lots of sparkling answers came. It was a wonderful group. At the end, a young woman named Jessica ...

The reader of “Paradise Lost” encounters the Garden of Eden at the same time that Satan does. Having leapt over the garden wall, Milton’s athletic antihero flies up into a tree to survey his new ...