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The scope and purpose of this category is to provide links dedicated to scholarship, essays, reviews, etc., on John Milton.

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• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_dae.html
  Jim Daems reviews Sea-Mark: The Metaphorical Voyage, Spenser to Milton, by Philip Edwards.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-2/rev_mcr1.html
  Andrew McRae reviews The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton, by John Rogers.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/rev_daem.html
  Jim Daems reviews Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire, by Lana Cable.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/rev_pep1.html
  Philip Edward Phillips reviews Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler, by Alvin Snider.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/daemsrev.htm
  Jim Daems reviews The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton, by Walter S.H. Lim.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/bowrev.htm
  Mary R. Bowman reviews Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature, by Kenneth Borris.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/willrev.htm
  Robert Grant Williams reviews Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, by Katherine Eggert.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/dyckrev.htm
  Paul Dyck reviews of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, by Michael Schoenfeldt.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/revpoole.htm
  Amdrew McRae reviews Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England, by Kristen Poole.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/walkrev.htm
  William Walker reviews Stanley Fish, How Milton Works, by Stanley Fish.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/revgooch.htm
  Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews Pastoral Process[:] Spenser, Marvell, Milton, by Susan Snyder.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/revwalk.htm
  William Walker reviews Milton and Heresy, Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich, eds.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-3/walkrev.htm
  William Walker reviews Milton and the Terms of Liberty, by Graham Parry and Joad Raymond, eds.

• Book Reviews

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/rev_pend.html
  John S. Pendergast reviews Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition, by Patrick J. Cook; Mapping the Faerie Queene, by Wayne Erickson.

• England as Israel in Milton's Writings

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-2/halemil2.html
  Explicates the relation between church and state in Milton's writings, arguing for the gradual loss of political innocence.

• Italy, European Intellectual Life, and the Pamphlet Wars of the 1640s

  http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/britlit/milton/miltonitaly.html
  Culture and history during the 1640s, and background on Milton in Italy.

• John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/postprint/jhill-milt/milton.htm
  Etext version of the book, "Study of Divine Vocation in Milton's Poetry and Prose," by John Spencer Hill.

• Milton and the Jacobean Church of England

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/doermilt.html
  A 1995 article by Daniel W. Doerksen, published in "Early Modern Literary Studies."

• Milton and the Sexy Seals: A Peephole into the Horton Years

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/halemilt.html
  Notes on Milton's marginalia, as pertaining to his copy of Lycophron's Alexandra. By John K. Hale.

• Milton Review

  https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~creamer/review.html
  Reviews of books about Milton, from Kevin J.T. Creamer, University of Richmond.

• Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/postprint/CCM2Biblio.html#1
  Many bibliographic entries of primary and secondary sources. From R.G. Siemens, University of Alberta.

• Milton, John

  http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc07/htm/ii.xii.iv.htm
  Background on Milton's religious convictions, and how they relate to his political tracts.

• Ovid's Rivers and the Naming of Milton's Lycidas

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/browovid.htm
  Eric C. Brown suggests that in terms of name Lycidas, "Comparatively little study has been made, however, of the etymological complexity of the name."

• Paradise Lost Study Guide

  http://www.paradiselost.org/
  Text, essays, indexes, illustrations, questions and answers.

• Protocols of Reading: Milton and Biography

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/vinomilt.html
  J. Michael Vinovich analyzes "how Milton's biography has been constructed . . [and] how its ideological and institutional protocols constrain reading strategies that threaten to qualify it."

• Reflections on Milton and Ariosto

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-3/flanmilt.html
  Analyses the issues surrounding "Milton and his supposed scribbles in a 1591 edition of Sir John Harington's translation of Ariosto." By Roy Flannagan.

• Selected Papers

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1998.html#Table of Contents
  From the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference comes the article, "Poetical Historiography: Milton’s History of Britain as a Literary Text," by James Egan.

• The Milton Quarterly

  http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/133
  Scholarly journal devoted to his life and writings.

 

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