Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources
R.G. Siemens
University of Alberta
Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca
Malaspina University-College

Siemens, R.G.  "Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources." Early Modern Literary Studies, iEMLS Postprint <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/iemls/postprint/CCM2Biblio.html>.  Originally published in Dennis Danielson (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Milton. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 1999. Pp. 268-90.

Note: I wish to express my gratitude to Thomas Corns, Dennis Danielson, Roy Flannagan, David Gay, John Hale, and Paul J. Klemp for their very helpful comments on earlier versions of this piece. Their suggestions have improved it greatly, though it is my sincere regret that, in several instances, limitations of length and scope have prevented me from adhering to them fully. My gratitude, also, must be extended to the Killam Trust, for its generous and kind support during the time during which I was at work on this chapter, and to Cambridge University Press, for their permission to co-publish this chapter in electronic format with Early Modern Literary Studies.  The electronic version of this piece differs slightly from that version published by Cambridge UP; it also contains a small number of emendations.

- Introduction to the Electronic Edition | Introduction from the Print Edition | Bibliography -

Introduction to the Electronic Edition

1. Approaching the works and life of John Milton, for the new reader and experienced scholar alike, can be a task that brings with it some expressions of hesitation. This is, in part, because of the breadth and depth of Milton himself, available to us today through his ample writings and life records. For firsthand engagement of these there is no substitute, nor is there much in the study of Milton more rewarding. In such engagement, moreover, one finds much good company, evident in the several hundred studies published annually about Milton; herein lies another probable reason for expressed hesitation. Some 4,500 studies have been documented, by Huckabay and Klemp (see #23, below), between the years of 1968 and 1988 alone; another 1,500 or so are recorded in the ten years prior to 1998 by the MLA International Bibliography (see #32, below).
   
   
2. Milton's writing is rewarded with such voluminous, careful scrutiny for a number of reasons, among them its aesthetic, its erudition, and its thematic matter, which is both temporal and eternal in nature. But, as noted by Mikolajczak -- whose "Reading Milton: A Summary of Illuminating Efforts" (#27) provides a useful overview of materials available in the late 1980s to those new to Milton -- while such a large concentration of scholarship and criticism may seem inordinate, our understanding of a writer such as Milton necessarily requires the constant and ongoing revitalization that it enjoys. Ultimately, this dynamic enterprise amounts to a valuable context in which to situate one's own thoughts and work -- a context that deserves to be embraced, vast as it is and hesitation-inspiring as it may well seem to be.
   
   
3. The list of select studies and research resources presented in this piece, below, builds on that provided earlier by Mikolajczak; while the below list is intended to stand on its own, it also updates and revises that select portion of work by and on Milton that he presents. That said, this bibliography also contextualizes those materials more sparsely, presenting them in the form of a numbered list, and grouping them into a number of categories, as below:
   

• Editions and Texts (#1-#20);
• Reference Works (#21-#61), which includes Bibliographies (#21-#33), Other Useful Reference Works (#34-#45), Introductions and Handbooks (#46-#53), and a section on Background and General Context (#54-#61);
• Milton's Life (#62-#76);
• Studies with Multi-Work and Contextual Emphasis (#77-#208), including sections on Milton and Other Writers (#77-#88), Specific Contexts for Interpretation of, and Influences upon, Milton (#89-#154), Influence on Others, Early Criticism and Note (#155-#169), Language, Prosody, Poetics, Imagery, and Style (#170-#188), and Anthologies and Collections (#189-#208);
• Studies with Single-Work Emphasis (#209-#325), with sections on Paradise Lost (#209-#273), Paradise Regained (#274-#284), Samson Agonistes (#285-#294), Shorter Poems, Comus, Lycidas (#295-#311), Prose (#312-#325); and
• Periodicals, Reviews, Discussion Group (#326-#335), which includes a short listing of other like resources (#331-#335).

The section housing works on Specific Contexts for Interpretation of, and Influences upon, Milton (#89-#154) is further divided into subsections containing the headings Biblical, Religious (#89-#107), Literary (#108-#122), Political, Social, Historical (#123-#143), and Other, Collections (#144-#154). The section on Paradise Lost (#209-#273) is also further divided, into subsections consisting of Broad Studies, Introductions (#209-#218), Theological Context (#219-#228), Narrator, Reader, and Argument (#229-#235), Epic, and Considerations of Form (#236-#247), the War in Heaven (#248-#251), Eden, Edenic Life, and the Fall (#252-#259), Further Considerations (#260-#269), and Collections (#270-#273).


4. The grouping of materials in this bibliography is intended to offer a humble, helpful and organizational guide to these materials, and attempts to show some sensitivity to the current state of Milton studies -- an area which itself, as Albert C. Labriola has recently commented, has clearly distinct "interpretive communities," though at times "appearing to be in a state of disorder" ("Chaos and Creation in Milton Studies: An Editor's Perspective," Milton Quarterly 32.2 [1998] p. 53.). Headings and subheadings, helpful or unhelpful as they may be, should not be taken as being absolute; in fact, recognizing that studies typically embrace and cross a number of such categories, and also in the knowledge that those with differing approaches may categorize similar items in quite different manners, a good deal of the material in this bibliography is cross-referenced, appearing thus in several categories.
   
   
5. While containing over 300 items, for explorations of Milton and his work this small listing can only be a starting point -- and only so after close study of the primary texts. A number of editions of these texts are listed below (#1-#20). Among the most popular today are the recent editions by Flannagan (#6), Carey and Fowler (#5), and Campbell (#3), though one will find also the profitable editions of Hughes (#8) and others very much in circulation, and frequent citation of Fletcher's facsimile edition (#7), Patterson's Works of John Milton (#14, the "Columbia Milton," to which the Variorum Commentary [#39] is keyed), Wolfe's Complete Prose Works (#16, the "Yale Prose"), and others. In addition to these, a number of electronic editions can be recommended, among them the Selected Poetry of John Milton (#18, from the U of Toronto's Representative Poetry series) and Flannagan's electronic editions of a number of poetic works, especially the 1674 Paradise Lost (#20); such texts, of course, can be read on-screen but, because of their potential for analysis (facilitated by programs such as TACT, with which #18 and #20 are published), their greatest value is in their use as a research tool, assisting in the close word-oriented scrutiny of a text or texts, much in the way one would with a concordance of Milton's work (see #34-#36) -- though more powerful yet. After detailed consideration of the primary texts, and at times concurrent with such consideration, you will find the Milton Encyclopedia (#40), the Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton (#39; in progress), and the Milton Dictionary (#41) to be valuable companions.
   
   
6. The reader of this bibliography will note that reference to criticism and scholarship here is made primarily to that which appears in book-length form; while an approach beginning with this criticism and scholarship will ensure that most of the major studies are taken into account, it does leave out a great deal that appears in forms other than the book-length publication. The use, thus, of the good number of annotated and subject-indexed listings of work on Milton will both ease the task of creating pertinent reading lists and bibliographies on broad and specific topics alike and, also, ensure that one's thoughts are situated accurately within the larger context of Milton studies as expressed in book-length studies and beyond. Evaluative guides to recent work in the field are available, annually, in the sections devoted to Milton in The Year's Work in English Studies (see #30) and in Studies in English Literature's review article "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance" (see #29). Listings of critical works and other materials from the years 1624-1988 are covered by Fletcher, Huckabay, Huckabay and Klemp, Shawcross, and Stevens (#21-#25), supplemented by Shawcross' two volumes of the Critical Heritage (#166-#167); as well, Klemp's Essential Milton (#26) offers a similar annotation and indexing of select modern studies, as do more focused listings such as Jones' Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 (#305) and that on Milton's prose works which, at the time of writing, Milton Quarterly (#326) is preparing to publish (also planned for release are annotated bibliographies on both Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained). Furthermore, up-to-date listings of article- and book-length studies on Milton can be found in the print editions of the MLA International Bibliography (#32) and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (#31). Using precise keywords for information associated with author, title, and subject, more detailed information can be extracted from the electronic database versions of these works, much as it can from the select Milton Quarterly Relational Database (#43), which contains searchable information about books reviewed by Milton Quarterly (#326), and resources such as those gathered by OCLC FirstSearch (#33), which itself includes a database listing of the combined holdings of libraries worldwide, listings of the tables-of-contents of journals, and so forth.
   
   
7. New article-length studies and reviews of recent works appear in Milton Quarterly (#326) and other journals, articles in the annual Milton Studies (#328), and reviews in the Milton Review (#327) and Seventeenth-Century News (#330); much Milton-related news is announced, and a host of topics of contemporary and long-standing interest alike are discussed, on the Milton-L discussion group (#329). Reliable and useful guides to resources available on the Internet for the study of Milton are found at the Internet sites of the Milton-L discussion group (#329), the Milton Review (#327), Milton Quarterly (#326), the Luminarium (#332), and those several sections devoted to electronic texts, resources, articles, and the like in Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS [#331]); there are also a number of very good sites, such as Thomas Luxon's Milton Reading Room (#333), created and maintained by Milton scholars and enthusiasts that may be of considerable assistance, as well as useful sites such as Richard Bear's Renascence Editions (#334) that contain materials specifically having to do with Milton, but have a much broader scope. OCLC FirstSearch (#33), furthermore, contains a searchable database and gathering of Internet resources, while pertinent resources on the Internet can also be located using a number of freely-available search engines (a gathering of these is provided by EMLS [#331]). In consideration of materials on the Internet, it should be noted that, just as quality and usefulness varies in print materials, so too does it (perhaps more so) in resources on the Internet; in evaluating such resources, the scholarly value of which you are unsure, you may wish to consult prepared guidelines (see, for example, #335).
   
   
8. Profitable employment of these resources will assist greatly in establishing a valuable context for your thoughts and work as it concerns Milton, though there is no substitute for -- and nothing more engaging than -- the pleasurable task of approaching Milton's work firsthand.
   

Introduction from the Print Edition

1. If Milton's oeuvre itself is daunting, Milton scholarship must appear much more so. Huckabay and Klemp (see #23, below) document some 4,500 studies appearing between the years 1968 and 1988 alone; the MLA International Bibliography (see #32, below) records another 1,500 for the ten years prior to 1998; and several hundred items a year continue to be published. Inordinate as this plethora of writings may sometimes seem, it is in fact a measure of Milton's continued vitality, and it offers the student of Milton much good company. Although of course there is no substitute for firsthand engagement of Milton himself, the following list of over three hundred items is intended (complementary to the reading lists at the end of the preceding chapters) as an avenue into the disparate but companionable society of Milton's many editors, expositors, critics, and admirers--and also as a tool with which one may develop one's own links with the ongoing world of Milton scholarship.
   
   
2. For ease of reference, works are listed below by number and arranged in the following categories and subcategories:
   

• Editions and Texts (#1-#20);
• Reference Works (#21-#61), which includes Bibliographies (#21-#33), Other Useful Reference Works (#34-#45), Introductions and Handbooks (#46-#53), and a section on Background and General Context (#54-#61);
• Milton's Life (#62-#76);
• Studies with Multi-Work and Contextual Emphasis (#77-#208), including sections on Milton and Other Writers (#77-#88), Specific Contexts for Interpretation of, and Influences upon, Milton (#89-#154), Influence on Others, Early Criticism and Note (#155-#169), Language, Prosody, Poetics, Imagery, and Style (#170-#188), and Anthologies and Collections (#189-#208);
• Studies with Single-Work Emphasis (#209-#325), with sections on Paradise Lost (#209-#273), Paradise Regained (#274-#284), Samson Agonistes (#285-#294), Shorter Poems, Comus, Lycidas (#295-#311), Prose (#312-#325); and
• Periodicals, Reviews, Discussion Group (#326-#335), which includes a short listing of other like resources (#331-#335).

The section housing works on Specific Contexts for Interpretation of, and Influences upon, Milton (#89-#154) is further divided into subsections containing the headings Biblical, Religious (#89-#107), Literary (#108-#122), Political, Social, Historical (#123-#143), and Other, Collections (#144-#154). The section on Paradise Lost (#209-#273) is also further divided, into subsections consisting of Broad Studies, Introductions (#209-#218), Theological Context (#219-#228), Narrator, Reader, and Argument (#229-#235), Epic, and Considerations of Form (#236-#247), the War in Heaven (#248-#251), Eden, Edenic Life, and the Fall (#252-#259), Further Considerations (#260-#269), and Collections (#270-#273). However, since studies typically overlap a number of such categories, no one should take the latter as definitive. Accordingly, many below are accompanied with liberal cross-references.


3. In keeping with the importance of reading Milton' writings themselves, a number of editions of his works are here included (#1-#20). Among the most popular today are editions for student use by Flannagan (#6), Carey and Fowler (#5), and Campbell (#3); likewise profitable is the edition of Hughes (#8), used by generations of North American students from the 1950s to the 1990s. In Milton scholarship one finds frequent citation of Fletcher's facsimile edition (#7), of Patterson's Works of John Milton (#14, the "Columbia Milton," to which the Variorum Commentary [#39] is keyed), and of Wolfe's Complete Prose Works (#16, the "Yale Prose"). In addition to these, a number of electronic editions can be recommended, among them the Selected Poetry of John Milton (#18, from the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry series) and Flannagan's electronic editions of a number of poetic works, especially the 1674 Paradise Lost (#20). Such texts can of course be read on-screen, but their greatest value is in their use as tools for analysis and research. Facilitated by programs such as TACT (with which #18 and #20 are published) one may employ these resources in carrying out close word-oriented scrutiny of a text or texts, much as one would with a concordance of Milton's works (see #34-#36)--though with greater flexibility and power.
   
   
4. Further useful tools include A Milton Encyclopedia (#40), the Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton (#39; in progress), and A Milton Dictionary (#41). Evaluative guides to recent work in Milton studies are available, annually, in the sections devoted to Milton in The Year's Work in English Studies (see #30) and in Studies in English Literature's review article "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance" (see #29). Listings of critical works and other materials from the years 1624-1988 are covered by Fletcher, Huckabay, Huckabay and Klemp, Shawcross, and Stevens (#21-#25), supplemented by Shawcross's two volumes of The Critical Heritage (#166-#167). Klemp's The Essential Milton (#26) offers a similar annotation and indexing of select modern studies, as do more focused listings such as Jones's Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 (#305) and the annotated bibliography on Milton's prose works in preparation by Milton Quarterly (#326), with others to follow on both Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained. Further up-to-date listings of article- and book-length studies on Milton can be found in the print editions of the MLA International Bibliography (#32) and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (#31). Using precise keywords for information associated with author, title, and subject, one can extract more detailed information from the electronic database versions of these works, or from the select Milton Quarterly Relational Database (#43), which contains searchable information about books reviewed by Milton Quarterly (#326). Also useful are resources such as those gathered by OCLC FirstSearch (#33), which includes a database listing of the combined holdings of libraries worldwide and listings of the tables-of-contents of journals.
   
   
5. New article-length studies and reviews appear in Milton Quarterly (#326), articles are collected in the annual Milton Studies (#328), and still other reviews are published in the Milton Review (#327) and Seventeenth-Century News (#330). Much Milton-related news is announced--and a host of topics of contemporary and long-standing interest are discussed--on the Milton-L discussion group (#329), whose Internet site offers reliable and useful guides to resources available on the Internet for the study of Milton. Other such resources can be accessed through the Internet sites of the Milton Review (#327), of Milton Quarterly (#326), and of the Luminarium (#332), as well as through those several sections devoted to electronic texts, resources, articles, and the like in Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS [#331]). Further recommended sites include several created and maintained by Milton scholars and enthusiasts, such as Thomas Luxon's Milton Reading Room (#333) and Richard Bear's Renascence Editions (#334). OCLC FirstSearch (#33), furthermore, contains a searchable database and gathering of Internet resources, while pertinent resources on the Internet can also be located using a number of freely available search engines (a gathering of these is provided by EMLS [#331]). It should be noted that Internet resources, perhaps even more than print materials, vary greatly in quality and usefulness. However, in evaluating such resources--as in reading Milton generally--one is not merely on one's own (see #335).




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Editions and Texts

• 1. Broadbent, John (gen. ed.) Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge, 1972-.
• 2. Bush, Douglas (ed.) The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton. Boston, 1965.
• 3. Campbell, Gordon (ed.) Complete English Poems, Of Education, Areopagitica. 4th ed. rev. London, 1990.
• 4. Carey, John (ed.) Complete Shorter Poems. 2nd ed. London, 1997.
• 5. -----, and Alastair Fowler (eds.) The Poems of John Milton. Rev. ed. London, 1980.
• 6. Flannagan, Roy (ed.) The Riverside Milton. New York, 1998.
• 7. Fletcher, Harris F. (ed.) John Milton's Complete Poetical Works, Reproduced in Photographic Facsimile. 4 vols. Urbana, 1943-48.
• 8. Hughes, Merritt Y (ed.) John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. New York, 1957.
• 9. Leonard, John (ed.) John Milton: The Complete Poems, Penguin English Poets. London, 1998.
• 10. Orgel, Stephen, and Jonathan Goldberg (eds.) John Milton. The Oxford Authors. Oxford, 1991.
• 11. Patrick, J. Max (ed.) The Prose of John Milton. Garden City, 1968.
• 12. Patrides, C.A. (ed.) John Milton: Selected Prose. Rev. ed. Columbia, 1985.
• 13. Patterson, Frank A. (ed.) The Student's Milton, Being the Complete Poems of John Milton with the Greater Part of his Prose Works, Now Printed in One Volume, Together with New Translations into English of His Italian, Latin, and Greek Poems. Rev. ed. New York, 1934.
• 14. ----- (gen. ed.) The Works of John Milton. 18 vols. New York, 1931-38.
• 15. Shawcross, John (ed.) The Complete English Poetry of John Milton (Excluding His Translations of Psalms 80-88); Arranged in Chronological Order with an Introduction, Notes, Variants, and Literal Translations of the Foreign Language Poems. Garden City, 1963. Rev. ed. New York, 1971.
• 16. Wolfe, Don M. (gen. ed.) The Complete Prose Works of John Milton. 8 vols. New Haven, 1953-82.
  
  
• 17. Chadwyck-Healey. Dedicatory poems (1694), A Maske [Comus] (1637), Paradise Lost (1674), Paradise Regain'd (1671), Poems (1645), and Poems Upon Several Occasions (1673). In The English Poetry Full-Text Database, Literature Online. Cambridge, 1998-. <URL: http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/>.
• 18. Endicott, N.J. Hugh MacCallum, and A.S.P. Woodhouse (eds.) Selected Poetry of John Milton. [Ian Lancashire, electronic text ed.] Representative Poetry, 1994-98. <URL: http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/milton.html>. Rptd. [text only, without notes] in Ian Lancashire, in collaboration with John Bradley, Willard McCarty, Michael Stairs, and T.R. Wooldridge. Using TACT with Electronic Texts. New York, 1996. <CD File: \br_ir_lt\engl_lit\1600_699\milton_j\poems\mlt_ilrp.txt>.
• 19. Flannagan, Roy (ed.) Milton on Disk: The English Poetry of John Milton [Poems (1645), Paradise Regain'd (1671) and Samson Agonistes (1671), Poems (1673), and Paradise Lost (1674)]. Clinton Corners, 1990.
• 20. ----- (ed.) Paradise Lost [1674]. [Rev. Ian Lancashire.] In Ian Lancashire, in collaboration with John Bradley, Willard McCarty, Michael Stairs, and T.R. Wooldridge. Using TACT with Electronic Texts. New York, 1996. <CD Directory: \br_ir_lt\engl_lit\1600_699\milton_j\par_lost\>.

Reference Works

Bibliographies:

• 21. Fletcher, Harris F. Contributions to a Milton Bibliography, 1800-1930, Being a List of Addenda to Stevens's Reference Guide to Milton. Urbana, 1931. Rptd. New York, 1967.
• 22. Huckabay, Calvin. John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-1968. Rev. ed. Pittsburgh, 1969.
• 23. ----- (comp.), and Paul J. Klemp (ed.). John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1988. Pittsburgh, 1996.
• 24. Shawcross, John T. Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700. Binghamton, 1984.
• 25. Stevens, David H. Reference Guide to Milton from 1800 to the Present Day. Chicago, 1930. Rptd. New York, 1967.
• See also #166-#167.
  

• 26. Klemp, Paul J. The Essential Milton: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. Boston, 1989.
• 27. Mikolajczak, Michael A. "Reading Milton: A Summary of Illuminating Efforts." 277-89 in Dennis Danielson (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge, 1989.
• 28. Patrides, C.A. An Annotated Critical Bibliography of John Milton. Brighton, 1987.
  
  
• 29. Quint, David. "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance." Studies in English Literature 38 (1998): 173-205.
• 30. Raymond, Joad. "Milton." The Year's Work in English Studies 76 (1995): 296-309.
  
  
• 31. The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Modern Humanities Research Association. 1921-. Rptd. in Literature Online. Cambridge, 1998-. <URL: http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/>.
• 32. MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. New York, 1922-. Rptd. [1963-] Dublin, 1998-. <URL: http://www.oclc.org/>. Rptd. [1963-] New York, 1988-. <URL: http://www.ovid.com/>. Rptd. [1963-] Norwood, 1988-. <URL: http://www.silverplatter.com/>. Rptd. [1963-] New York, 1988-. <URL: www.mla.org>.
• 33. OCLC Firstsearch. Dublin, 1992-. <URL: http://www.oclc.org/>.

Other Useful Reference Works:

• 34. Cooper, Lane. A Concordance of the Latin, Greek, and Italian Poems of John Milton. Halle, 1923. Rptd. New York, 1971.
• 35. Ingram, William, and Kathleen Swaim. A Concordance to Milton's English Poetry. Oxford, 1972.
• 36. Sterne, Laurence, and Harold H. Kollmeier. A Concordance to the English Prose of John Milton. Binghamton, 1985.
  
  
• 37. Boswell, Jackson C. Milton's Library: A Catalogue of the Remains of John Milton's Library and an Annotated Reconstruction of Milton's Library and Ancillary Readings. New York, 1975.
• 38. Gilbert, Allan H. A Geographical Dictionary of Milton. New Haven, 1919. Rptd. Folcroft, 1976.
• 39. Hughes, Merritt Y. (gen. ed.) A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. 3 vols. [1, 2, and 4; of a projected 6.] New York, 1970-.
• 40. Hunter, William B., Jr. (gen. ed.) A Milton Encyclopedia. 9 vols. Lewisburg, 1978-83.
• 41. Le Comte, Edward. A Milton Dictionary. New York, 1961.
• 42. -----. A Dictionary of Puns in Milton's English Poetry. New York, 1981.
• 43. Milton Quarterly Relational Database. Roy Flannagan (ed.), with Doug Korchinski (prog.) and Jeff Miller (interface), Greg Coulombe (rev.). Publ. 1997 in Early Modern Literary Studies (#331): <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/iemls/mqlibrary/search.html>.
• 44. Pecheux, M. Christopher. Milton: A Topographical Guide. Washington, 1981.
• 45. Rogal, Samuel J. An Index to the Biblical References, Parallels, and Allusions in the Poetry and Prose of John Milton. Lewiston, 1994.
• See also #17-#20.

Introductions and Handbooks:

• 46. Broadbent, John. John Milton: Introductions. Cambridge, 1973.
• 47. Bush, Douglas. John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and Writings. New York, 1964.
• 48. Carey, John. Milton. London, 1969.
• 49. Daiches, David. Milton. 2^nd rev. ed. London, 1971.
• 50. Hanford, James H., and James G. Taaffe. A Milton Handbook. 5^th ed. New York, 1970.
• 51. Miller, David M. John Milton: Poetry. Boston, 1978. Rptd. [CD] London, 1992.
• 52. Potter, Lois. A Preface to Milton. Rev. ed. London, 1986.
• 53. Wolfe, Don M. Milton and His England. Princeton, 1971.
• See also #55.

Background and General Context:

• 54. Corns, Thomas. Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660. Oxford, 1992.
• 55. Duggan, Margaret M. English Literature and Backgrounds, 1660-1700: A Selective Critical Guide. 2 vols. New York, 1990.
• 56. Keeble, N.H. The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England. Athens, 1987.
• 57. Parry, Graham. The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700. London, 1989.
• 58. Patrides, C.A., and Raymond Waddington (eds.) The Age of Milton: Backgrounds to Seventeenth-Century Literature. Manchester, 1980.
• 59. Rogers, John. The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton. Ithaca, 1996.
• 60. Smith, Nigel. Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660. New Haven, 1994.
• 61. Wilding, Michael. Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution. Oxford, 1987.

Milton's Life

• 62. Brown, Cedric. John Milton: A Literary Life. New York, 1995.
• 63. Campbell, Gordon (ed.) A Milton Chronology. Basingstoke, 1997.
• 64. Clark, Donald L. John Milton at St. Paul's School: A Study of Ancient Rhetoric in English Renaissance Education. Hamden, 1948, [rptd.] 1964.
• 65. Darbishire, Helen (ed.) The Early Lives of Milton. London, 1932, [rptd.] 1965.
• 66. Diekhoff, John. Milton on Himself: Milton's Utterances Upon Himself and His Works. New York, 1939. 2^nd ed. New York, 1965.
• 67. Fletcher, Harris F. The Intellectual Development of John Milton. 2 vols. Urbana, 1956-1961.
• 68. French, Joseph M. (ed.) The Life Records of John Milton. 5 vols. New Brunswick, 1949-58. Rptd. New York, 1966.
• 69. Hanford, James H. John Milton, Englishman. New York, 1949.
• 70. Macaulay, Rose. Milton. London, 1933. Rptd. New York, 1974.
• 71. Masson, David. The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time. 7 vols. London, 1859-94.
• 72. Parker, William R. Milton: A Biography. 2 vols. 2^nd ed. rev. Gordon Campbell (ed.). Oxford, 1996.
• 73. Shawcross, John. John Milton: The Self and the World. Lexington, 1993.
• 74. Thorpe, James E. John Milton: The Inner Life. San Marino, 1983.
• 75. Wilson, A.N. The Life of John Milton. Oxford, 1983. Rptd. London, 1996.
• 76. Zagorin, Perez. Milton, Aristocrat and Rebel: The Poet and His Politics. Rochester, 1992.
• See also #47-#49, #98, #133, #203, and #323.

Studies with Multi-Work and Contextual Emphasis

Milton and Other Writers:

• 77. Esterhammer, Angela. Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake. Toronto, 1994.
• 78. Ferry, Anne. Milton and the Miltonic Dryden. Cambridge, 1968.
• 79. Frye, Roland M. God, Man, and Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in Paradise Lost, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Great Theologians. Princeton, 1960. Rptd. Port Washington, 1972.
• 80. Grierson, Herbert J.C. Milton and Wordsworth, Poets and Prophets: A Study of Their Reactions to Political Events. London, 1937. Rptd. New York, 1962.
• 81. Guillory, John. Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History. New York, 1983.
• 82. Hartwell, Kathleen E. Lactantius and Milton. Cambridge, 1929. Rptd. New York, 1974.
• 83. Helgerson, Richard. Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System. Berkeley, 1983.
• 84. Hieatt, A.K. Chaucer, Spenser, Milton: Mythopoeic Continuities and Transformations. Montreal, 1975.
• 85. Hogan, Patrick C. Joyce, Milton, and the Theory of Influence. Gainesville, 1995.
• 86. Low, Lisa, and Anthony J. Harding (eds.) Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism. Cambridge, 1994.
• 87. Tillyard, E.M.W. The Metaphysicals and Milton. London, 1956. Rptd. Westport, 1975.
• 88. Williams, Meg H. Inspiration in Milton and Keats. London, 1982.
• See also #56, #58, #93, #97, #101, #108-#112, #114-#122, #144, #158-#159, #162, #165, #168, and #266.

Specific Contexts for Interpretation of, and Influences upon:

Biblical, Religious:

• 89. Christopher, Georgia B. Milton and the Science of the Saints. Princeton, 1982.
• 90. Driscoll, James P. The Unfolding God of Jung and Milton. Lexington, 1993.
• 91. Egan, James J. The Inward Teacher: Milton's Rhetoric of Christian Liberty. Seventeenth-Century News (see #330), University Park, 1980.
• 92. Entzminger, Robert. Divine Word: Milton and the Redemption of Language. Pittsburgh, 1985.
• 93. Fiore, Peter A. Milton and Augustine: Patterns of Augustinian Thought in Paradise Lost. University Park, 1981.
• 94. Fletcher, Harris F. Milton's Rabbinical Readings. Urbana, 1930. Rptd. Norwood, 1978.
• 95. -----. Milton's Semitic Studies and Some Manifestations of Them in His Poetry. Chicago, 1926. Rptd. Norwood, 1979.
• 96. Gallagher, Phillip. Milton, The Bible, and Misogyny. Eugene R. Cunnar and Gail Mortimer (eds.). Columbia, 1990.
• 97. Gregerson, Linda. The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Cambridge, 1995.
• 98. Hill, John Spencer. John Milton, Poet, Priest and Prophet: A Study of Divine Vocation in Milton's Poetry and Prose. London, 1979. Rptd. Early Modern Literary Studies (see #331) <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/iemls/postprint/jhill-milt/milton.htm>.
• 99. Kerrigan, William W. The Prophetic Milton. Charlottesville, 1974.
• 100. Madsen, William G. From Shadowy Types to Truth: Studies in Milton's Symbolism. New Haven, 1968.
• 101. O'Keeffe, Timothy J. Milton and the Pauline Tradition: A Study of Theme and Symbolism. Washington, 1982.
• 102. Radzinowicz, Mary Ann. Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms. Princeton, 1989.
• 103. Richmond, Hugh M. The Christian Revolutionary: John Milton. Berkeley, 1974.
• 104. Rumrich, John Peter, and Stephen Dobranski (eds.) Milton and Heresy. Cambridge, 1998.
• 105. Sims, James H. The Bible in Milton's Epics. Gainesville, 1962.
• 106. -----, and Leland Ryken (eds.) Milton and the Scriptural Tradition: The Bible into Poetry. Columbia, 1984.
• 106.5. Stroup, Thomas B. Religious Rite and Ceremony in Milton's Poetry. Lexington, 1968.
• 107. West, Robert H. Milton and the Angels. Athens, 1955.
• See also #79, #82, #120, #125, #127, #141, #147, #149, #155, #176, #178, #181, #219-#228, #248, #251, #255-#258, #262, #268, #287, #307, #316, and #319.

Literary:

• 108. Burrow, Colin. Epic Romance: Homer to Milton. Oxford, 1993.
• 109. Cullen, Patrick. Infernal Triad: The Flesh, The World and the Devil in Spenser and Milton. Princeton, 1974.
• 110. Demaray, John G. Cosmos and Epic Representation: Dante, Spenser, Milton and the Transformation of Renaissance Heroic Poetry. Pittsburgh, 1991.
• 111. DuRocher, Richard. Milton and Ovid. Ithaca, 1985.
• 112. Falconer, Rachel. Orpheus Dis(re)membered: Milton and the Myth of the Poet-Hero. Sheffield, 1996.
• 113. Grose, Christopher. Milton and the Sense of Tradition. New Haven, 1988.
• 114. Harding, Davis P. Milton and the Renaissance Ovid. Urbana, 1946. Rptd. Philadelphia, 1978.
• 115. Mulryan, John. Through A Glass Darkly: Milton's Reinvention of the Mythological Tradition. Pittsburgh, 1996.
• 116. Quilligan, Maureen. Milton's Spenser: The Politics of Reading. Ithaca, 1983.
• 117. Samuel, Irene. Dante and Milton: The Commedia and Paradise Lost. Ithaca, 1966.
• 118. -----. Plato and Milton. Ithaca, 1947, [rptd.] 1965.
• 119. Stevens, Paul. Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in Paradise Lost. Madison, 1985.
• 120. Swiss, Margo, and David A. Kent (eds.) Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance. Lewisburg, 1995.
• 121. Whiting, George W. Milton's Literary Milieu. Chapel Hill, 1939. Rptd. New York, 1964.
• 122. Wittreich, Joseph A. Visionary Poetics: Milton's Tradition and His Legacy. San Marino, 1979.
• See also #79, #81-#82, #84, #86-#87, #97, #112, #114-#115, #149, #155, #180, #187, #194, #223, #226-#227, #236, #238, #240, #243, #246-#247, #250, #252-#253, #266, #279, #290, and #310-#311.

Political, Social, Historical:

• 123. Achinstein, Sharon. Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. Princeton, 1994.
• 124. Armitage, David, Armand Himy, and Quentin Skinner (eds.) Milton and Republicanism. Cambridge, 1995.
• 125. Barker, Arthur E. Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660. Toronto, 1942, [rptd.] 1976.
• 126. Belsey, Catherine. John Milton: Language, Gender, Power. Oxford, 1988.
• 127. Bennett, Joan S. Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton's Great Poems. Cambridge, 1989.
• 128. Davies, Stevie. Milton. New York, 1991.
• 129. Fallon, Robert T. Captain or Colonel: The Soldier in Milton's Life and Art. Columbia, 1984.
• 130. -----. Divided Empire: Milton's Political Imagery. University Park, 1995.
• 131. -----. Milton in Government. University Park, 1993.
• 132. Geisst, Charles R. The Political Thought of John Milton. London, 1984.
• 133. Hill, Christopher. The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries. New York, 1984. Rptd. London, 1994.
• 134. -----. Milton and the English Revolution. London, 1977, [rptd.] 1979.
• 135. Kendrick, Christopher. Milton: A Study in Ideology and Form. New York, 1986.
• 136. Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in Restoration England. Athens, 1994.
• 137. Lieb, Michael. Milton and the Culture of Violence. Ithaca, 1994.
• 138. Loewenstein, David. Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge, 1990.
• 139. Milner, Andrew. John Milton and the English Revolution: A Study in the Sociology of Literature. London, 1981.
• 140. Sauer, Elizabeth. Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics. Montreal, 1996.
• 141. Turner, James. One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton. Oxford, 1987.
• 142. Walker, Julia M. (ed.) Milton and the Idea of Woman. Urbana, 1988.
• 143. Wittreich, Joseph. Feminist Milton. Ithaca, 1987.
• See also #138, #150, #151, #157, #199, #249-#250, #260-#261, #264-#268, #280, #307, #314, #318, #321-#322, and #324.

Other, Collections:

• 144. Arthos, John. Dante, Michaelangelo, and Milton. London, 1963. Rptd. Westport, 1979.
• 145. Di Cesare, Mario (ed.) Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradictions. Binghamton, 1991.
• 146. Fallon, Stephen M. Milton Among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-century England. Ithaca, 1991.
• 147. Haskin, Dayton. Milton's Burden of Interpretation. Philadelphia, 1994.
• 148. Martz, Louis. Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry. New Haven, 1980.
• 149. Mulryan, John (ed.) Milton and the Middle Ages. Lewisburg, 1982.
• 150. Nyquist, Mary, and Margaret Ferguson (eds.) Re-membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions. London, 1988.
• 151. Rumrich, John Peter. Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation. Cambridge, 1996.
• 152. Steadman, John. Milton and the Paradoxes of Renaissance Heroism. Baton Rouge, 1987.
• 153. Svendsen, Kester. Milton and Science. Cambridge, 1956. Rptd. New York, 1969.
• 154. Tillyard, E.M.W. Milton. Rev. ed. London, 1967.

Influence on Others; Early Criticism and Note:

• 155. Altizer, Thomas J. History as Apocalypse. Albany, 1985.
• 156. Anglen, Kevin P. van. The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic. University Park, 1993.
• 157. Armstrong, Nancy, and Leonard Tennenhouse. The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Berkeley, 1992, [rptd.] 1994.
• 158. Brisman, Leslie. Milton's Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs. Ithaca, 1973.
• 159. Griffin, Dustin. Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1986.
• 160. Labriola, Albert C., and Edward Sichi (eds.) Milton's Legacy in the Arts. University Park, 1988.
• 161. Murray, Patrick. Milton: The Modern Phase, A Study of Twentieth-Century Criticism. New York, 1967.
• 162. Nelson, James G. The Sublime Puritan: Milton and the Victorians. Madison, 1963. Rptd. Westport, 1974.
• 163. Parker, William Riley. Milton's Contemporary Reputation, Together with a Tentative List of Printed Allusions to Milton, 1641-1674, and Facsimile Reproductions of Five Contemporary Pamphlets Written in Answer to Milton. Columbus, 1940. Rptd. Norwood, 1979.
• 164. Sensabaugh, George F. Milton in Early America. Princeton, 1964. Rptd. New York, 1979.
• 165. Shawcross, John. John Milton and Influence: Presence in Literature, History and Culture. Pittsburgh, 1991.
• 166. ----- (ed.) Milton: The Critical Heritage [1628-1731]. London, 1970. Rptd. London, 1995.
• 167. ----- (ed.) Milton, 1732-1801: The Critical Heritage. London, 1970. Rptd. London, 1995.
• 168. Wittreich, Joseph A. The Romantics on Milton: Formal Essays and Critical Asides. Cleveland, 1970.
• 169. ----- (ed.) Milton and the Line of Vision. Madison, 1975.
• See also #78, #85-#86, #120, #122, #206, #233, #265, and #269.

Language, Prosody, Poetics, Imagery, and Style:

• 170. Banks, Theodore H. Milton's Imagery. New York, 1950, [rptd.] 1969.
• 171. Budick, Sanford. The Dividing Muse: Images of Sacred Disjunction in Milton's Poetry. New Haven, 1985.
• 172. Burnett, Archie. Milton's Style: The Shorter Poems, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. London, 1981.
• 173. Cable, Lana. Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire. Durham, 1995.
• 174. Corns, Thomas N. Milton's Language. Oxford, 1990.
• 175. Daniells, Roy. Milton, Mannerism and Baroque. Toronto, 1963.
• 176. Emma, Ronald, and John Shawcross (eds.) Language and Style in Milton: A Symposium in Honor of the Tercentenary of Paradise Lost. New York, 1967.
• 177. Evans, Robert O. Milton's Elisions. Gainesville, 1966.
• 178. Frye, Roland. Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems. Princeton, 1978.
• 179. Hale, John K. Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style. Cambridge, 1997.
• 180. Lieb, Michael. The Sinews of Ulysses: Form and Convention in Milton's Work. Pittsburgh, 1989.
• 181. McColley, Diane K. A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts. Urbana, 1993.
• 182. Mustazza, Leonard. 'Such Prompt Eloquence': Language as Agency and Character in Milton's Epics. Lewisburg, 1988.
• 183. Oras, Ants. Blank Verse and Chronology in Milton. Gainesville, 1966.
• 184. Ricks, Christopher. Milton's Grand Style. Oxford, 1963, [rptd.] 1983.
• 185. Shoaf, R.A. Milton, Poet of Duality: A Study of Semiosis in the Poetry and the Prose. New Haven, 1985. Rptd. Gainesville, 1993.
• 186. Sprott, Samuel E. Milton's Arts of Prosody. Oxford, 1953. Rptd. Norwood, 1978.
• 187. Steadman, John M. The Wall of Paradise: Essays on Milton's Poetics. Baton Rouge, 1985.
• 188. Tuve, Rosemond. Images and Themes in Five Poems by Milton. Cambridge, 1957.
• See also #77, #92, #126, #130, #203, #224, #312, and #314.

Anthologies and Collections:

• 189. Barker, Arthur E. (ed.) Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York, 1965, [rptd.] 1968.
• 190. Benet, Diana Treviño, and Michael Lieb (eds.) Literary Milton: Text, Pretext, Context. Pittsburgh, 1994.
• 191. Bloom, Harold (ed.) John Milton. New York, 1986.
• 192. Critical Essays on Milton from ELH. Baltimore, 1965.
• 193. Durham, Charles, and Kristin Pruitt McColgan (eds.) Spokesperson Milton: Voices in Contemporary Criticism. London, 1994.
• 194. Frye, Northrop. The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics. Toronto, 1965, [rptd.] 1975.
• 195. Kendrick, Christopher (ed.) Critical Essays on John Milton. New York, 1995.
• 196. Kermode, Frank (ed.) The Living Milton: Essays by Various Hands. London, 1960, [rptd.] 1967.
• 197. Le Comte, Edward. Milton Re-Viewed: Ten Essays. New York, 1991.
• 198. Martz, Louis (ed.) Milton: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, 1966. Rptd. 1986 as Milton, Paradise Lost: A Collection of Critical Essays.
• 199. McColgan, Kristin, and Charles Durham (eds.) Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind. Cranbury, 1997.
• 200. Patterson, Annabel (ed.) John Milton. New York, 1992.
• 201. Patrides, C.A. (ed.) Milton's Epic Poetry: Essays on Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Harmondsworth, 1967.
• 202. Rudrum, Alan (ed.) Milton: Modern Judgements. London, 1968.
• 203. Stanwood, P.G. (ed.) Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and His World. Binghamton, 1995.
• 204. Stein, Arnold S. (ed.) On Milton's Poetry: A Selection of Modern Studies. Greenwich, 1970.
• 205. Summers, Joseph H. (ed.) The Lyric and Dramatic Milton: Selected Papers from the English Institute. New York, 1965.
• 206. Thorpe, James E. (ed.) Milton Criticism: Selections From Four Centuries. New York, 1950. Rptd. London, 1969.
• 207. Williamson, George (ed.) Milton and Others. Chicago, 1965, [rptd.] 1970.
• 208. Wittreich, Joseph (ed.) Calm of Mind: Tercentenary Essays on Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in Honor of John S. Diekhoff. Cleveland, 1971.

Studies with Single-Work Emphasis

Paradise Lost -- Broad Studies, Introductions:

• 209. Blessington, Francis C. Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic. Boston, 1988.
• 210. Bush, Douglas. Paradise Lost in Our Time: Some Comments. Ithaca, 1945. Rptd. Gloucester, 1957.
• 211. Corns, Thomas. Regaining Paradise Lost. London, 1994.
• 212. Gardner, Helen. A Reading of Paradise Lost. Oxford, 1965, [rptd.] 1971.
• 213. Kirkconnell, G. Watson. The Celestial Cycle: The Theme of Paradise Lost in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto, 1952. Rptd. New York, 1967.
• 214. Lewis, C.S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Oxford, 1942, [rptd.] 1961, [rev.] 1974.
• 215. Loewenstein, David. Milton--Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1993.
• 216. Rumrich, John R. Matter of Glory: A New Preface to Paradise Lost. Pittsburgh, 1987.
• 217. Stocker, Margarita. Paradise Lost. London, 1988.
• 218. Summers, Joseph H. The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1962. Rptd. Binghamton, 1981.

Paradise Lost -- Theological Context:

• 219. Berry, Boyd M. Process of Speech: Puritan Religious Writing and Paradise Lost. Baltimore, 1976.
• 220. Corcoran, Mary I. Milton's Paradise with Reference to the Hexameral Background. Washington, 1945. Rptd. Folcroft, 1970.
• 221. Danielson, Dennis. Milton's Good God: A Study in Literary Theodicy. Cambridge, 1982.
• 222. Empson, William. Milton's God. Rev. ed. London, 1961, [rev.] 1965. Rptd. Cambridge, 1981.
• 223. Evans, J. Martin. Paradise Lost and the Genesis Tradition. Oxford, 1968.
• 224. Hunter, William B., C.A. Patrides, and J.H. Adamson. Bright Essence: Studies in Milton's Theology. Salt Lake City, 1971.
• 225. Lieb, Michael. Poetics of the Holy: A Reading of Paradise Lost. Chapel Hill, 1981.
• 226. MacCallum, Hugh. Milton and the Sons of God: The Divine Image in Milton's Epic Poetry. Toronto, 1986.
• 227. Patrides, C.A. Milton and the Christian Tradition. Oxford, 1966. Rptd. Hamden, 1979.
• 228. Reichert, John. Milton's Wisdom: Nature and Scripture in Paradise Lost. Ann Arbor, 1992.
• See also #79, #90, #93, #96-#98, #100, #102, #105-#106, #109, #152, #232, #234, #257-#258, #268, and #273.

Paradise Lost -- Narrator, Reader, and Argument:

• 229. Burden, Dennis. The Logical Epic: A Study of the Argument of Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1967.
• 230. Diekhoff, John. Milton's Paradise Lost: A Commentary on the Argument. New York, 1946. Rptd. New York, 1958, 1963.
• 231. Ferry, Anne. Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1963. Rptd. and rev. Chicago, 1983.
• 232. Fish, Stanley. Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost. London, 1967. Rptd., 2^nd ed. Cambridge, 1998.
• 233. Rajan, Balachandra. Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth-Century Reader. London, 1947, [rptd.] 1966.
• 234. Riggs, William G. The Christian Poet in Paradise Lost. Berkeley, 1972.
• 235. Stein, Arnold S. The Art of Presence: The Poet and Paradise Lost. Berkeley, 1977.
• See also #140.

Paradise Lost -- Epic, and Considerations of Form:

• 236. Blessington, Francis C. Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic. Boston, 1979.
• 237. Crump, Galbraith M. The Mystical Design of Paradise Lost. Lewisburg, 1975.
• 238. Demaray, John G. Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Design of Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1980.
• 239. Gilbert, Allan H. On the Composition of Paradise Lost: A Study of the Ordering and Insertion of Material. Chapel Hill, 1947. Rptd. New York, 1966.
• 240. Grose, Christopher. Milton's Epic Process: Paradise Lost and Its Miltonic Background. New Haven, 1973.
• 241. Lewalski, Barbara. Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms. Princeton, 1985.
• 242. Lieb, Michael. The Dialectics of Creation: Patterns of Birth and Regeneration in Paradise Lost. Amherst, 1970.
• 243. Martindale, Charles. John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic. Totowa, 1986.
• 244. Steadman, John M. Epic and Tragic Structure in Paradise Lost. Chicago, 1976.
• 245. -----. Milton's Epic Characters: Image and Idol. Chapel Hill, 1964, [rptd.] 1968.
• 246. Treip, Mindele Anne. Allegorical Poetics and the Epic: The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost. Lexington, 1994.
• 247. Webber, Joan. Milton and His Epic Tradition. Seattle, 1979.
• See also #97, #135, #194, and #271.

Paradise Lost -- War in Heaven:

• 248. Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton, 1987, [rptd.] 1989.
• 249. Freeman, James A. Milton and the Martial Muse: Paradise Lost and European Traditions of War. Princeton, 1980.
• 250. Murrin, Michael. History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic. Chicago, 1994, [rptd.] 1997.
• 251. Revard, Stella P. The War in Heaven: Paradise Lost and the Tradition of Satan's Rebellion. Ithaca, 1980.
• See also #109, #129, and #224.

Paradise Lost -- Eden, Edenic Life, and the Fall:

• 252. Duncan, Joseph E. Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden. Minneapolis, 1972.
• 253. Knott, John R. Milton's Pastoral Vision: An Approach to Paradise Lost. Chicago, 1971.
• 254. Marilla, Esmond L. The Central Problem of Paradise Lost: The Fall of Man. Cambridge, 1953. Rptd. Philadelphia, 1979.
• 255. McColley, Diane. Milton's Eve. Urbana, 1983.
• 256. Ryken, Leland. The Apocalyptic Vision in Paradise Lost. Ithaca, 1970.
• 257. Schwartz, Regina. Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost. Cambridge, 1988.
• 258. Stein, Arnold S. Answerable Style: Essays on Paradise Lost. Minneapolis, 1953. Rptd. Seattle, 1967.
• 259. Swaim, K. Before and After the Fall: Contrasting Modes in Paradise Lost. Amherst, 1986.
• See also #127, #141, #181, #271, and #318.

Paradise Lost -- Further Considerations:

• 260. Babb, Lawrence. The Moral Cosmos of Paradise Lost. East Lansing, 1970.
• 261. Evans, J. Martin. Milton's Imperial Epic: Paradise Lost and the Discourse of Colonialism. Ithaca, 1996.
• 262. Hamlet, Desmond. One Greater Man: Justice and Damnation in Paradise Lost. Lewisburg, 1976.
• 263. Leonard, John. Naming in Paradise: Milton and the Language of Adam and Eve. Oxford, 1990.
• 264. Marjara, Harinder Singh. Contemplation of Created Things: Science in Paradise Lost. Toronto, 1992.
• 265. Miller, Timothy C. The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Westport, 1997.
• 266. Porter, William M. Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost. Lincoln, 1993.
• 267. Reid, David. The Humanism of Milton's Paradise Lost. Edinburgh, 1993.
• 268. Stavely, Keith W.F. Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition. Ithaca, 1987, [rptd.] 1990.
• 269. Waldock, Arthur. Paradise Lost and Its Critics. Cambridge, 1947, [rptd.] 1966.
• See also #110-#111, #116-#117, #119, #124, #130, #136, #140, #146, #149, #152, #155, #176, #178, #182, #184-#185, and #194.

Paradise Lost -- Collections:

• 270. Dyson, A.E., and Julian Lovelock (eds.) Milton: Paradise Lost. London, 1973.
• 271. Kranidas, Thomas. New Essays on Paradise Lost. Berkeley, 1969, [rptd.] 1971.
• 272. Patrides, C.A., and John Arthos (eds.) Approaches to Paradise Lost. London, 1968.
• 273. Rajan, Balachandra (ed.) Paradise Lost: A Tercentenary Tribute. Toronto, 1969.
• See also #120, #190-#191, #193, #198, #201, and #203.

Paradise Regained:

• 274. Bloom, Harold (ed.) John Milton's Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Minor Poems. New York, 1988.
• 275. Kirkconnell, G. Watson. Awake the Courteous Echo: The Themes and Prodosy of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto, 1973.
• 276. Lewalski, Barbara K. Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning, and Art of Paradise Regained. Providence, 1966.
• 277. Martz, Louis L. "Paradise Regained: The Interior Teacher" 169-201 in The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne, and Milton. New Haven, 1964.
• 278. McAdams, James R. "The Pattern of Temptation in Paradise Regained." Milton Studies 4 (1972): 177-93.
• 279. Pope, Elizabeth M. Paradise Regained: The Tradition and the Poem. Baltimore, 1947. Rptd. New York, 1962.
• 280. Rusdhy, Ashraf. The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton. Pittsburgh, 1992.
• 281. Shawcross, John. Paradise Regain'd: Worthy T'Have Not Remain'd So Long Unsung. Pittsburgh, 1988.
• 282. Stein, Arnold S. Heroic Knowledge: An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Hamden, 1957, [rptd.] 1965.
• 283. Sundell, Roger R. "The Narrator as Interpreter in Paradise Regained." Milton Studies 2 (1970): 83-101.
• 284. Weber, Burton J. Wedges and Wings: The Patterning of Paradise Regained. Carbondale, 1974, 1975.
• See also #98, #102, #105-#106, #109, #113, #127, #130, #136, #140, #152, #172, #178, #182, #193-#195, #197, #201, #208, #245, #247, and #280.

Samson Agonistes:

• 285. Crump, Galbraith M. (ed.) Twentieth Century Interpretations of Samson Agonistes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, 1968.
• 286. Kirkconnell, G. Watson. That Invincible Samson: The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto, 1964.
• 287. Krouse, F. Michael. Milton's Samson and the Christian Tradition. Princeton [for Cincinnati], 1949. Rptd. New York, 1974.
• 288. Labriola, Albert C., and Michael Lieb (eds.) The Miltonic Samson. Milton Studies 33. Pittsburgh, 1997.
• 289. Low, Anthony. The Blaze of Noon: A Reading of Samson Agonistes. New York, 1974.
• 290. Parker, William R. Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy in Samson Agonistes. Baltimore, 1937. Rptd. New York, 1969.
• 291. Radzinowicz, Mary Ann. Toward Samson Agonistes: The Growth of Milton's Mind. Princeton, 1978.
• 292. Rudrum, Alan. A Critical Commentary on Milton's Samson Agonistes. London, 1969.
• 293. Skulsky, Harold. Justice in the Dock: Milton's Experimental Tragedy. London, 1995.
• 294. Wittreich, Joseph A. Interpreting Samson Agonistes. Princeton, 1986.
• See also #76, #96, #98, #100, #113, #127, #129-#130, #136, #138, #149, #152, #172-#173, #180, #191, #193-#195, #203, #208, #274, #280, and #282.

Shorter Poems, Comus, Lycidas:

• 295. Berkeley, D. Inwrought with Figures Dim: A Reading of Milton's Lycidas. The Hague, 1974.
• 296. Brooks, Cleanth, and John Edward Hardy (eds.) Poems of Mr. John Milton: The 1645 Edition with Essays in Analysis. New York, 1951. Rptd. New York, 1968.
• 297. Demaray, John G. Milton and the Masque Tradition: The Early Poems, Arcades, and Comus. Cambridge, 1968.
• 298. Evans, J. Martin. The Miltonic Moment. Lexington, 1998.
• 299. -----. The Road From Horton: Looking Backwards in Lycidas. Victoria, 1983.
• 300. Flannagan, Roy (ed.) Comus: Contexts. [Special issue of Milton Quarterly 21 (1987); see #326.] Binghamton, 1988.
• 301. Fletcher, Angus. The Transcendental Masque: An Essay on Milton's Comus. Ithaca, 1971.
• 302. Honigmann, E.A. (ed.) Milton's Sonnets. London, 1966.
• 303. Hunt, Clay. Lycidas and the Italian Critics. New Haven, 1979.
• 304. Hunter, William B. Milton's Comus: Family Piece. Troy, 1983.
• 305. Jones, Edward. Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992. Binghamton, 1994.
• 306. Leishman, J.B. Milton's Minor Poems. Geoffrey Tillotson (ed.). Pittsburgh, 1969.
• 307. McGuire, Maryann Cale. Milton's Puritan Masque. Athens, 1983.
• 308. Miller, William S. The Mythology of Milton's Comus. New York, 1988.
• 309. Nardo, Anna K. Milton's Sonnets and the Ideal Community. Lincoln, 1979.
• 310. Patrides, C.A. (ed.) Milton's Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem. New York, 1961. Rev. ed. Columbia, 1983.
• 311. Revard, Stella P. Milton and the Tangles of Naera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems. Columbia, 1997.
• See also #106, #113, #120, #129, #172, #191, #193-#195, #197, #203, #274-#275, and #280.

Prose:

• 312. Corns, Thomas. The Development of Milton's Prose Style. Oxford, 1982.
• 313. -----. John Milton: The Prose Works. New York, 1998.
• 314. Dowling, Paul M. Polite Wisdom: Heathen Rhetoric in Milton's Areopagitica. Lanham, 1995.
• 315. Fish, Stanley. "Reason in The Reason of Church Government." 265-302 in Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature. Berkeley, 1972.
• 316. Fletcher, Harris F. The Use of the Bible in Milton's Prose. Urbana, 1929.
• 317. Gilman, Wilbur E. Milton's Rhetoric: Studies in his Defense of Liberty. Columbia, 1939. Rptd. Norwood, 1977.
• 318. Halkett, John. Milton and the Idea of Matrimony: A Study of the Divorce Tracts and Paradise Lost. New Haven, 1970.
• 319. Honeygosky, Stephen R. Milton's House of God: The Invisible and Visible Church. Columbia, 1993.
• 320. Lieb, Michael, and John Shawcross (eds.) Achievements of the Left Hand: Essays on the Prose of John Milton. Amherst, 1974.
• 321. Loewenstein, David, and James Grantham Turner (eds.) Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose. Cambridge, 1990.
• 322. Maltzahn, Nicholas von. Milton's History of Britain: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution. Oxford, 1991.
• 323. Mohl, Ruth. John Milton and His Commonplace Book. New York, 1969.
• 324. Stavely, Keith. The Politics of Milton's Prose Style. New Haven, 1975.
• 325. Weaver, Richard M. "Milton's Heroic Prose." In The Ethics of Rhetoric. South Bend, 1953. Rptd. Davis, 1985.
• See also #91, #125, #135, #138, #173, #176, #185, #190, and #193-#195.

Periodicals, Reviews, Discussion Group

• 326. Milton Quarterly. Roy Flannagan (ed.) Athens, 1966-. Home page <URL: http://voyager.cns.ohiou.edu/~somalley/milton.html>. Electronic rpt. Baltimore, <URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/milton_quarterly/>. [Formerly Milton Newsletter, vols. 1-3.]
• 327. Milton Review. Roy Flannagan and Kevin J.T. Creamer (eds.) <URL: http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/review.html>.
• 328. Milton Studies. Albert C. Labriola (ed.) Pittsburgh, 1969-.
• 329. Milton-L. Kevin J.T. Creamer, moderator. <URL: http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/>; <E-mail: Milton-L@Richmond.edu>.
• 330. Seventeenth-Century News. Donald R. Dickson (ed.) College Station, 1942-. Home page <URL: http://www-english.tamu.edu/pubs/scn/>.

Other:

• 331. Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. R.G. Siemens (ed.) <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html>. Electronic texts <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlsetxt.html>; internet resources <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlsweb.html>; articles, notes, and reviews <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlsjour.html>; search engines <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlswsrc.html> .
• 332. Luminarium. Anniina Jokinen (ed.) <URL: http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm>; Milton materials <URL: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/>.
• 333. Milton Reading Room. Thomas Luxon (ed.) <URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/>.
• 334. Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799. Richard Bear (gen. ed.) <URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm>.
• 335. Smith, Alastair G. "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8.3 (1997): <URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html>.

 

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