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Talking With Alan Jacobs About John Milton

Talking With Alan Jacobs About John Milton

milton as a baroque writer; milton's hidden tenderness; milton loves Eve more than think he does; misreading Blake misreading Milton; and other matters

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May 11, 2025
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I’m trying to get back into the habit of running interviews with authors I like. Since Alan Jacobs’s excellent Paradise Lost: A Biography is only days away from publication — June 3 is the official date — I figured that there was no better time for me to take my quibbles with Milton’s epic to a guy fully qualified to answer them. He answered them so wel…

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