WAS JOHN MILTON a student of the occult? I had forgotten just how extensive his grasp of demonology was until the publication of a new edition of “Paradise Lost” (Modern Library: 424 pp., $11 ...

John Milton citing Spenser on the recent history of Ireland in his 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles. Note Milton's italic e, hooks and curls on letters and distinctive s's.

The handwriting was oddly familiar. University of Cambridge lecturer Jason Scott-Warren peered closer at the article he was reading — especially its photos of anonymous marginal scratchings in a ...

John Milton's handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery makes this ...

John Milton Muddles Through Some people call this a critical, as opposed to a creative, age. I doubt whether it is either.

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon.

A scholar at Cambridge named Jason Scott-Warren was browsing through some journal articles and stumbled across John Milton’s annotated copy of Shakespeare’s first folio.