John Milton

English poet and political writer best known for Paradise Lost, one of the greatest epic poems in English literature.

Epic poet of Paradise Lost · Political theorist and pamphleteer 1629–1674 English 1608–1674

formative influences

The classical and medieval epics that shaped Milton's vision for Paradise Lost as the great English Christian epic.

Commonwealth period

Political treatises and historical works that armed Milton's pen in defense of republicanism and religious liberty.

lifelong study

The biblical and theological sources that formed the bedrock of Milton's Christian humanism and poetic vision.

Biographies, critical studies, and retrospectives.

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John Milton John T. Shawcross · 2006
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Milton Studies James D. Simmonds · 1974
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Milton's God Empson, William · 1961
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Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony and Physics Walter Clyde Curry · 1957
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Paradise lost as "myth" Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey · 1954
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Lucifer and Prometheus R. J. Zwi Werblowsky · 1952
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Studies in Milton E. M. W. Tillyard · 1951
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Milton's Samson and the Christian tradition F. Michael Krouse · 1949
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A Preface to Paradise Lost C. S. Lewis · 1941
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The Miltonic setting, past & present E. M. W. Tillyard · 1938
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Mary Powell & Deborah's diary Anne Manning · 1908
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A concordance to the poetical works of John Milton Bradshaw, John · 1894
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Milton Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1885
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The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1871
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Paradise lost & the seventeenth century reader Balachandra Rajan · 1947
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