Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlemen

Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time.

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancie

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 ess

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