John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed

Reade, Orlando (2024) John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed. Jacobin.

Abstract

An article on the significance of poetry for dark times, relating the conditions in which John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, and then two related anecdotes from teaching in prison, in which students helped me to understand how poetry might provide consolation in times of political defeat and despair.

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