Tag Archives: John Milton

Milton Would Call Paul Ryan a Wolf

By Robin Bates | Published: March 11, 2014

Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy about the poor deserves a Miltonian rebuke.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 14, 2013

An argument that “Last of the Mohicans” is the great American epic that 19th-century authors were striving to write.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2013

To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 1, 2013

Kobayashi Issa’s New Year’s Day haiku provides a healthy perspective.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 23, 2012

The shootings in Aurora, Colorado call forth literary works about evil stalking the world, including “Beowulf” and “Paradise Lost.”

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2012

Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2012

Seeing sin more as human separateness from creation than as disobeying God may be a more powerful way to teach the concept to today’s students.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2012

One of my students who suffers from bulimia finds her condition mirrored in Satan’s rebellion against God.

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By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2011

For a description of a luscious Thanksgiving feast, turn to the luncheon that Eve prepares for Archangel Raphael in Book V of “Paradise Lost.”

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