1979-2025
On Youtube, a “dashing” 43 minute production. It is not too long to be boring and I think some of it will be surprising.
It is a pop opera that anyone can enjoy. Some of it is a bit risqué. Lyrics are based upon my Acrostic Paradise Lost that tells the poem in acrostics.
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“The aim of this project is to introduce John Milton’s Paradise Lost to young audiences.” Terrance Lindall
My art (1979) in Heavy Metal Magazine was the first introduction of my Paradise Lost to the general public. Copies are now in rare book collections. Then I went DIGITAL: Later I posted my recitation from this book on Youtube 18 years ago, a digital platform, which now has over 126,000 views: https://youtu.be/uwngvX_mqlw?si=iSGn2DDN8DxOvauI also posted my lectures (17 years ago) on Milton: https://youtu.be/DovgzhFuwNA?si=plCiIKrl4hUsLykG
Recently on Youtube I presented my Paradise Lost Opera on November 28th 2025: https://youtu.be/YEGrBeNDFIQ?si=ihvKezSHrNoX1bhS In three weeks it reached over 1400 views through 12/23/2025 and added over 450 subscribers to the channel. 100% of the viewers are between 25 and 34 years of age, according to Youtube analytics. That is inspiring! I have many, many videos on Youtube about Paradise Lost. I also post my books in online forums like Issuu and Yumpu: Issuu: https://issuu.com/lindall/docs/paradise_lost_costume_ball_reduced_issuu https://issuu.com/lindall/docs/paradise_lost_collection_yuko_nii_foundation_sept_ Yumpu: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63854414/the-acrostic-paradiselost-by-john-milton-and-terrance-lindall Other past projects were: 1) Hardcover synopsized version of Paradise Lost that was in the window of Bretano’s Bookstore (then the world’s largest) in Manhattan at Fifth and Madison Avenue. It sold out. Brentano's was founded as an independent bookstore in New York City in 1853 by August Brentano, who established a newsstand in front of the New York Hotel (great story on Wikipedia). 2) The Gold Scroll: The painting illuminates idea on the nature of "God's Perfect Mercy." It is represented online on Youtube linked at Milton Revealed (Berkeley U.): https://miltonrevealed.berkeley.edu/videos/john-miltons-paradise-lost-gold-illuminatedscroll
Giclee print copies are now in some of the world's foremost collections including: 1) Huntington Library in California, Gift Purchased by Distinguished Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The Huntington's highlights include one of the world's most extensive collections of William Blake material, most notably Blake's original illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost. 2) The University of Pennsylvania Rare Book Collection, Gift Purchased by Distinguished Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The U of Penn holds over 560 exemplars of books printed in Europe from movable type before 1501. Sixty-six of these titles are the only recorded copies in North America. 3) The University of Kentucky, Gift Purchased by Distinguished Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The U of Kentucky collections include many famous artists. 4) The Alexander Turnbull Milton Library of the National Trust of Zealand 5) The collection of Robert J. Wickenheiser, one of the world's foremost collectors of Milton books, art & ephemera. Gold Elephant Folio: In 2011 and 2012 Terrance Lindall completed work on production of "The Paradise Lost Elephant Folio," a 24 k. gold illuminated 13 x 19 inch book containing 14 full-page Giclee print illustrations with hand-painted borders using Museo II paper manufactured by Crane's, which company makes the paper for our currency. The borders of the elephant folio are complete paintings in themselves. Although the border art focuses principally on elements of design, they also tell stories or make commentary on the subject in the main picture.
Digital Milton Hardcover – September 6, 2018 by David Currell (Editor), Islam Issa (Editor) See all formats and editions
Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use innovative techniques, such as processing metadata from vast archives of early modern prose, coding Milton’s geographical references on maps, and visualizing debt networks from literature and from life. Other chapters discuss the technologies and platforms shaping how literature reaches us today, from audiobooks to eReaders, from the OED Online to Wikipedia, and from Twitter to YouTube. Digital Milton is the first say on a topic that will become ever more important to scholars, students, and teachers of early modern literature in the years to come. It talks about my digital efforts. About the Author David Currell is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Islam Issa is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Birmingham City University, UK. •
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (September 6, 2018) Hardcover : 287 pages, ISBN-10 : 3319904779
Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use innovative techniques, such as processing metadata from vast archives of early modern prose, coding Milton’s geographical references on maps, and visualizing debt networks from literature and from life. Other chapters discuss the technologies and platforms shaping how literature reaches us today, from audiobooks to eReaders, from the OED Online to Wikipedia, and from Twitter to YouTube. Digital Milton is the first say on a topic that will become ever more important to scholars, students, and teachers of early modern literature in the years to come.
PREFACE FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MILTON'S CREATIVE INFLUENCE (by Hugh Macrae Richmond) This Bibliography is concerned primarily with recent investigations of creative artists' response to Milton's oeuvre, as covered by John T. Shawcross in his magisterial "John Milton and Influence: Presence in Literature, History and Culture." For example, in 1677John Dryden described Milton as the poet of the sublime but went on to compose the less magnificent The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man: an Opera (1677) which stillshows Milton’s direct influence. Even his satirical mock epic, Absolom and Achitophel, reflects Miltonic precedents in its biblical theme. As for Europe, there was an early, partial translation of Paradise Lost into German by Theodore Haak, and based on that a standard verse translation by Ernest Gottlieb von Berge. A subsequent prose translationby Johann Jakob Bodmer was popular and influenced Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. TheGerman-language Milton tradition returned to England in the illustrations of the artistHenry Fuseli, whose work led the way for other illustrators such as Gustave Dore'. A striking example of the way Milton can be successfully reintroduced to modern culture at all levels is provided by the work of Terrance Lindall. Lindall's book Paradise Lost Illustrated has been compared to other Milton illustrators including William Blake (see21st c. heading below). According to New York University professor Karen Karbiener,many students prefer Lindall's version, which appeared in Heavy Metal magazine and has a popular following among young people.