The Terrible Fate of John Milton - Washington Examiner

Milton and Me - First Things

I’ve just gobbled up a newly published book by my dear friend Alan Jacobs, whom I see only rarely these days (though one such occasion, blessedly, was earlier this year). The book in question—a volume in Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, presided over by Fred Appel—is Paradise Lost: A Biography. As I’ve mentioned before, during my school years (from kindergarten through stints in a ridiculous number of…

The terrible fate of John Milton - Washington Examiner

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the

The terrible fate of John Milton

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the... The post The terrible fate of John Milton appeared first on Daily Trut…