Tag Archives: Paradise Lost

Sports Autographs & Locks of Hair

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2014

Fans’ obsession with autographs are like the Baron’s obsession with Belinda’s locks in “Rape of the Lock.”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 23, 2014

Reading literature through the eyes of others brings special pleasures and insights.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2014

Scott Bates’ animal fable about an epic mole parodies “Paradise Lost” and provides a skeptical look at poetry and religion.

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By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2014

Suggestions that certain classics come with “trigger warnings” leads of the following reflection.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 11, 2014

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

By Robin Bates | Published: February 16, 2014

Philip Pullman based “Dark Materials” on “Paradise Lost” but came up with a theological muddle.

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: 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.