Long is the way and hard - John Milton's road to Paradise Lost

We know how Galileo went blind and was imprisoned for publishing his heretical science. What is little known is the meeting he had with John Milton which resulted in a similar fate for the bright young poet. Espousing revolutionary change arguably as a result of meeting Galileo, he fell from a high place to the hell of Death Row and blindness before he could publish his masterpiece Paradise Lost.

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

8th Annual Milton Lecture


Posted by Los4Words at 01:40
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About my screenplay

About my screenplay
In Sight of Heaven

Tweet me

Tweet me
Los4Words

LinkedIn

LinkedIn
My LinkedIn Profile

John Milton Reading Room

John Milton Reading Room

Other articles of interest

  • Milton & Galileo
  • Team Milton (re Galileo)
  • Philip Pullman's introduction to Paradise Lost
  • The Republic of Heaven
  • C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman and the Ghost of Milton
  • His Dark Materials (intertext)
  • Citizen Milton
  • Melvyn Bragg examines John Milton's literary and political career
  • explores the influence of Protestant thinking, the Reformation and the Renaissance on Milton's depiction of religious and political beliefs
  • Paradise Lost 'translated more often in last 30 years than previous 300'
  • Milton in the Arab-Muslim World
  • Eleventh International Milton Symposium
  • Why Milton Matters
  • Team Milton (re Cromwell)
  • Paradise Lost and Frankenstein
  • Academia
  • Cabbalistic gematria

Paradise Lost

  • Audio (BBC)
  • Paradise Lost – like a bad comic book?
  • Essays & other resources
  • [Genre] [God] [The Son] [Marriage] [Knowledge] [Politics] [Cosmology][Publication History]
  • Text with notes, references, comments
  • searchable

My Other Writing

  • Search poems for Chalfonte

Blog Archive

  • ►  2021 (2)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  May (1)
  • ▼  2019 (3)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ▼  February (2)
      • In Sight of Heaven
      • 8th Annual Milton Lecture
  • ►  2018 (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ►  2017 (2)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
  • ►  2014 (1)
    • ►  July (1)

John Milton: The Milton-L Home Page

Loading...
Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.