The Cambridge Companion to Milton provides an accessible and helpful guide, introducing readers to both the scope of Milton's work and the range of current approaches to it.
A comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early 21st century, with a focus on Milton's political and religious contexts and closer integration of the poetry and prose.
This book brings alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field.
The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship.
This book describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh analyses of his major pamphlets and poems, and describes traditional and recent responses to his reputation and writings.
A general and comprehensive reference tool covering each work by Milton; the life of Milton and his family; events and contemporary and historical figures mentioned significantly in his writings; every book of the Bible in its relation to Milton's own work; printers, booksellers, and publishing history; the critical and editorial traditions; illustrators; and those whose own writing was shaped by Milton's influence.
This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts.
Highlights Milton's imaginative daring and considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton's geat poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts.
Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton's great epic Paradise Lost.
Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.
The collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
John Milton's Paradise Lost celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton (1608–1674) with an exhibition drawn from the Morgan's collection of the English poet's work, which includes the only surviving manuscript of Paradise Lost.
Comprehensive collection of resources related to Milton and his work. A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century.