← Open in Podbookcase

Cover of Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

John Milton · first published 1667

Mentioned 9 time(s) by 8 guest(s): 2 recommend. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags

  1. Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention

    “…Paradise Lost is published under the censorious regime.…”

    Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

  2. Oliver on Conversations with Tyler (2026-03-04): recommend

    “…it’s easily one of the best poems in English, and it’s not read enough.…”

    Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English (Ep. 271)

  3. Zach Weinersmith on EconTalk (2023-03-13): recommend

    “…It's actually an incredible book, Paradise Lost is.…”

    Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

  4. Joyce Carol Oates on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-02-11): mention

    “…If you're reading Paradise Lost, or the great plays of Shakespeare, or Middlemarch, or Ulysses…”

    Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living (#497)

  5. Neal Stephenson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-07-17): mention

    “…Paradise Lost is the basis, really, for Fall…”

    Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality (Ep. 71)

  6. Neal Stephenson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-07-17): mention

    “…that’s what makes the Paradise Lost so interesting…”

    Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality (Ep. 71)

  7. Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention

    “…It’s a term that I took from Paradise Lost by Milton.…”

    Emily Wilson on Translations and Language (Ep. 63)

  8. Gretchen Rubin on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-04): mention

    “…I'm working my way through Paradise Lost.…”

    Gretchen Rubin (#290)

  9. Cass Sunstein on Conversations with Tyler (2016-06-22): mention

    “…the greatest religious poem, I think, in the English language, Paradise Lost…”

    Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Ep. 10 - Live at Mason)