Joe Moshenska

Joe Moshenska teaches English at University College, Oxford. Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton was published in 2021.

From The Blog
26 April 2023

I felt rather embarrassed that, having spent some years thinking about connections between the two writers, I hadn’t thought to ask whether Freud’s copy of Milton survived. I wanted to hold it but that wasn’t allowed, perhaps aptly – Milton and Freud are among the writers most preoccupied with forms of prohibition.

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