The political afterlife of Paradise Lost
From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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The NS Poem: Full of flint
A new poem by Annabel Taylor-Munt.
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The NS Poem: Goya’s Madrileños
A new poem by Will Eaves.
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The NS Poem: Now
A new poem by Margaret Atwood.
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The NS Poem: She seems to me (after Sappho)
A new poem by Kim Moore.
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WH Auden’s visions of England
The poet as a young man became the “mouthpiece of an epoch” by connecting his private world with the public…
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The NS Poem: The Sea
A poem by Graham Mort.
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The NS Poem: Jackdaw Beach – Low-Key
A poem by John Kinsella.
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