'Scholarly Milton [...] is admirably clear and informative. It lays out the basics of Milton’s education and intellectual life and the evolution of his thinki

These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within whi

The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Eller

William Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. Ho

Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives collects nine previously unpublished essays that examine Milton’s works as the product of his unique intellectual exp