In John Milton's epic Paradise Lost it is given a more fitting neighbour:

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Examples of hubris are often found in fiction, most famously in Paradise Lost, John Milton's depiction of the biblical Lucifer.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

The Romantics drew comparisons between Prometheus and the spirit of the French Revolution, Christ, the Satan of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the divinely inspired poet or artist.

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton's Paradise Lost c. 1866.

* Sabrina, a character in John Milton's Comus

The trilogy functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost ; with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing.

The title of the series, His Dark Materials, comes from seventeenth century poet John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2:

Printed by John Milton's publisher the book was an instant " best-seller ", and gave Williams a large and favorable reputation.

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

Some of the details of the creation of Narnia, such as the emergence of animals from the ground, and the way they shake earth from their bodies are also similar to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and may also have been inspired by descriptions of the processes of nature in The seventh book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

* In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Book 1 ), Satan is hurled " to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire ".

In John Milton's " Paradise Lost ," Peor is said to be the other name of the fallen angel Chemos, who " entic'd / Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile / To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

The massacre prompted John Milton's famous sonnet, " On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ".

In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer reciting his poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting ; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas to illustrate lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

* John Milton's sonnet " To the Nightingale " contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to ( or " cuckolded ") their husbands.

In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).

Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.

John Milton in his Comus falls into this group.

The second Lady Carbery was the original of the Lady in John Milton's Comus.

The inspiration for the name came from John Milton's Lord of Misrule in his masque Comus.

Lawes's name has become known beyond musical circles because of his friendship with John Milton, for whose masque, Comus, he supplied the incidental music for the first performance in 1634.

Pastoral opera remained popular throughout the 17th-century, and not just in Italy, as is shown by the French genre of pastorale héroïque, Englishman Henry Lawes's music for Milton's Comus ( not to mention John Blow's Venus and Adonis ), and Spanish zarzuela.

* Comus by John Milton ( 22 colour plates, 35 line, 1922 )

The Cloggies performed uninvited and to mixed receptions at several college discos, offering terrifying moves such as The Forward Lunge with Curse, but their big breakthrough came when asked by producer Martin Pennock to take on the country-dancing roles in the closing scenes of John Milton ’ s Comus.

* George Frideric Handel – Comus ( based on the masque by John Milton )

At the conclusion of Comus ( 1634 ), the poet John Milton alluded to the story of Cupid and Psyche.

In John Milton's masque Comus, the god Comus is described as the son of Bacchus and Circe.

Comus is featured in the baroque operas Les plaisirs de Versailles by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and King Arthur by Henry Purcell and John Dryden.

It also released records by Man, Paul Brett's Sage, Titus Groan, Mike Cooper, Heron, John Kongos ( before he found greater success on the Fly label ), Comus, Atlantic Bridge, Pluto, Atomic Rooster and the Mungo Jerry offshoot, the King Earl Boogie Band.

The band was named after Comus ( a masque by John Milton ), and is also from the name of the Greek god Comus.

* Comus ( John Milton ), a masque by John Milton

* Allusions to other works include Ishmael, Cesar, Euripides, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton's Masque of Comus, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, Molière's Les Femmes Savantes, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, Sophocles's Electra, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Cellini's autobiography.

The title cites John Milton's song from his masque Comus ( 1634 ), which is quoted in the play:

It was soon followed by La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the American premier of that work, and the 1772 performance of Comus by John Milton, performed by the American Company of Lewis Hallam.