The archbishop in his library -- One book for one country -- Revision, banishment, restoration -- Becoming venerable -- The book in the social world -- Objects, bodies, and controversies -- The ...

In his “biography” of Paradise Lost, which is part of Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, Alan Jacobs traces Johnson’s and others’ responses to Milton and his ...

“‘Paradise Lost’ is, surely, the greatest poem in English,” Alan Jacobs declares in his book on John Milton’s masterpiece, “but it is not lovable.” Few who know the poem would disagree with either ...