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 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 ...

Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...