MAJOR WORKS OF REFERENCE
Bibliographies
J. T. Shawcross Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700, 1984
D. H. Stevens A Reference Guide to Milton from 1800, 1930.
H. F. Fletcher Contributions to Milton Bibliography 1800-1930, 1931.
Calvin Huckabay John Milton,A Bibliographical Supplement 1929-57,1960.
Further supplements in 1964, 1968.
John Milton, An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-68, 1969.
P.J. Klemp The Essential Milton: An Annotated Bibliography of
Major Modern Studies, 1989
Journals
Roy C. Flannagan Milton Quarterly, formerly Milton Newsletter 1967-.
Albert Labriola Milton Studies, 1969-.
Concordances
W. Ingram et al A Concordance to Milton's English Poems, 1972.
F. A. Patterson An Index to the Columbia Edition of The works of John
Milton, 2 vols., 1940.
Biographies
J. M. French The Life Records of John Milton, 5 vols., 1949-58.
H. F. Fletcher The Intellectual Development of John Milton, 1956-61.
W. R. Parker Milton: A Biography, 2 vols., 1968.
A. N. Wi1son The Life of John Milton, 1984.
Commentaries
Merritt Y. Hughes A Variorum Commentary, 6 vols, 1970-75.
General
Thomas N. Corns Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature 1640-
60 1992
W. B. Hunter Jr. A Milton Encyclopedia, 9 vols., 1978-83
C. A. Patrides The Age of Milton: Backgrounds to 17th Century Enqlish
Literature, 1980
Dennis Danielson The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 1989
MAJOR EDITIONS
Texts
A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, London, H.
Robinson, 1637
Justa Edouardo King naufrago, Cambridge, Thomas Buck &
Roger Daniel, 1638
Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, London,
Humphrey Moseley, 1645
Paradise Lost, London, Samuel Simmons, 1667
Paradise Regained. A Poem. In IV Books. To Which is Added
Samson Agonistes, London, John Starkey, 1671
Poems upon Several Occasions, London, T. Dring, 1673
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, London, S.
Simmons, 1674
Paradise Lost . . . The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with
Sculptures, London, Jacob Tonson, 1688
Poetical Works, London, Jacob Tonson, 1695 (published
together with Patrick Hume's Annotations on Milton's
Paradise Lost)
Richard Bentley Milton's Paradise Lost, A New Edition, London, Jacob
Tonson, 1732 (refuted by Zachary Pearce, A Review of the
Text of the Twelve Books of Milton's Paradise Lost,
London, John Shuckburgh, 1732).
J. Richardsons Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost
With the Life of the Author and a Discourse on the
Poem, London, James John and Paul Knapton, 1734
Thomas Newton Paradise Lost . . . A New Edition, with Notes of Various Authors,
London, Jacob Tonson, 1749
George S. Green A New Version of Paradise Lost, Oxford, W. Jackson,, 1756 Thomas
Wharton Poems Upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin,
with Translations, by John Milton, London, James
Dodsley,1785.
Henry J. Todd The Poetical Works of John Milton, with Notes of Various
Authors, London, J. Johnson, 1801.
F. A. Patterson The Works of John Milton, 18 vols., Columbia University
Press, 1931-8.
H. F. Fletcher John Milton's Complete Poetical Works Reproduced in
Photographic Facsimile, 4 vols., 1943-8.
Don M. Wolfe Complete Prose Works of John Milton, 8 vols., Yale
University Press, 1953-.
Textual and Bibliographical Studies
Robert M. Adams 'Empson and Bentley', Ikon: Milton and the Modern Critics
1955
'The Text of Paradise Lost', Ibid.
Stuart Bennet 'Jacob Tonson as an Early Editor of Paradise Lost' The
Library 10 (1988)
William Empson 'Milton and Bentley', Some Versions of the Pastoral, 1960
Peter Lindenbaum 'John Milton and the Republican Mode of Literary
Production' Yearbook of English Studies 21 (1991) 121-36
'The Poet in the Marketplace: Milton and Samuel Simmons'
in P.J. Stanwood, Of Poetry and Politics, 1995.
D. F. McKenzie 'Milton's Printers: Matthew, Mary and Samuel Simmons' MQ
14 (1980) 87-91
R. G. Moyles The Text of Paradise Lost: A Study in Editorial Procedure
1985
Ants Oras Milton's Editors and Commentators 1695-1801, 1931, repr
1969
The 1645 Edition
Gale H. Carrithers Jr. 'Poems (1645): On Growing Up' MS 15 (1981) 161-80
Thomas Corns 'Milton's Quest for Respectability' MLR 77 (1982) 769-79 'Ideology
in the Poemata (1645),' MS 19 (1984) 195-203
J. Martin Evans 'The Birth of the Poet: Milton's Poetic Self-Construction"
MS 38 (2000) 47-65
John K. Hale 'Milton's Self-Presentation of Poems . . . 1645' MQ 25 (1991) 37-48
Randall Ingram 'The Writing Poet: The Descent from Song' MS 34 (1996) 179-
97
Leah Marcus 'Milton as Historical Subject' MQ 25 (1991) 120-27
Louis L. Martz Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry, 1980
C.R.D. Moseley Milton: The English Poems of 1645, 1991, ch. 4
Stella Revard Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645
Poems, 1997
Christopher Ricks 'Milton: Poems 1645' in New History of Literature, II:
English Poetry and Prose, 1540-1674, 1967
MILTON'S ILLUSTRATORS
Artists
Henry Aldrich (1688)
William Blake (1806-7)
Louis Cheron (1720)
Gustave Dore (l8xx)
Henry Fuseli (1799, 1802)
Francis Hayman (1749)
Bernard Lens (1688)
John Martin (1827)
Jean Baptista de Medina (1688)
James Thornhill (1720)
J. M. Turner (1835)
Critical Discussions
Marcia Allentuck 'Fuseli as Illustrator of Milton' SEL 2 (1962) 151-3.
Alan Bacon 'Jane Eyre's Paintings and PL' NQ 31 (1984) 64-5
C. H. C. Baker 'Some Illustrators of Milton's Paradise Lost
(1688-1850)' The Library 3 (1948) 1-21, 101-19.
T. Baiston 'Some Illustrators of Milton's Paradise Lost' The
Library 4 (1949)
Stephen Behrendt 'Blake's Illustrations to Milton's Nativity Ode' PQ 55 (1976)
65-95
The Moment of Explosion: Blake and the Illustration of Milton, l963
Suzanne Boorsch 'The 1688 Paradise Lost and Dr Aldrich' Metropo1itan Museum
Journal 6 (1972) 133-50.
Pamela Dunbar William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton, 1980
Helen Gardner 'Milton's First Illustrator' ES 9 (1956) 27-38.
Jean H. Hagstrum Wi1liam Blake, Poet and Painter: An Introduction to the Illuminated
Verse, 1964
Edward Hodnett Image and Text: Studies in the Illustration of Eng Lit, 1982
Merrit Y. Hughes 'Some Illustrators of Milton: the Expulsion from Paradise'
JEGP 60 (1961) 670-79.
Albert Labriola &
Edward Sichi Milton's Legacy in the Arts, 1968
Marcia Pointon Milton and English Art, 1970.
M.D. Ravenhall 'Sources and Meaning in Dr Aldrich's 1688 Illustrations pf PL'
ELN 19 (1982) 208-18
'Francis Atterbury and the First Illustrated Edition of PL' MQ 16 (1982) 29-36
Denis Saurat Blake and Milton, 1965
E. Schoenberg 'Picturing Satan for the 1688 PL' in Labriola
John T. Shawcross 'The First Illustrations for Paradise Lost' MQ 9 (1975) 43-6.
Kester Svendsen 'John Martin and the Expulsion Scene of Paradise Lost' SEL 1
(1961) 63-74
Patricia Tufte 'Protection and Peril: Bernard Lens' View of Milton's Eden' MQ
21 (1987) 90-96
'Evil as Parody .. Three Illustrators Interpret Book IV' Mosaic 21 (1988) 37-58
'Visualizing PL' in G.M.Crump Approaches to Teaching PL, 1986
R. Waddington 'Louis Cheron's Illustration of Milton's Sin' MQ 19 (1985) 78-80
Dennis M. Welsh 'Blake's Critique of Election: Milton and the Comus Illustrations'
PQ 64 (1985) 492-531
B. C. Werner Blake's Vision of the Poetry of Milton, 1986
J. A. Wittreich 'Milton's 'First Illustrator'', SCN 32 (1974) 70-71 Angel of
Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of Milton, 1975
MILTON'S INFLUENCE
Sunday 0. Anozie 'Soyinka and the Jihad of the Pen' in Matutu Zeitschrift fur
afrikanische Kultur und Gesellschaft 1 (19b7) 73-83
June Bostich 'Miltonic Influence in The Rape of the Lock' EnlE 4 (1973) 65-72
B.A. Dahiyat Milton and Franklin' Early American Literature 21 (1986) 44-48
J.V. Faizarano PL and the Prelude Diss Abs 43 (1983)
D.M. Foerster 'Homer, Milton, and the American Revolt Against Epic
Poetry, 1812-60', SP 53 (1956)
Marcia Frank 'Staging Criticism, Staging Milton: John Dryden's
The State of Innocence' The Eighteenth Century 34 (1993) 45-64
R.K. Gordon Keats and Milton', MLR 42 (1947) 434-46
Herbert Grierson Milton and Wordsworth, 1937
Dustin Griffin 'Milton's Literary Influence' in Dennis Danielson, The Cambridge
Companion to Milton,1989
Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century, 1986
Joan Grundy 'Hardy and Milton' Thomas Hardy Annual 3 (1985) 3-14
John Hale 'The Significance of the Early Translations of Paradise Lost' PQ 63
(1984) 31-53
Raymond D. Havens The Influence of Milton on English Poetry, 1922
Carolivia Herron Milton and Afro-American Literature' in Mary Nyquist, Margaret
Ferguson, Re-membering Milton, 1987
P. C. Hogan 'Miltonic Pamtomomiom and the Paradox Lust or Finnegans Wake' James
Joyce Quarterly 27 (1990) 815-33
Leon Howard 'Early American Copies of Milton', HLQ 7 (1935).
Robin Jarvis 'Love between Milton and Wordsworth' in Re-membering
Milton
Hugh Jenkins 'Jefferson (Re)Reading Milton' MQ 32 (1998) 32-38
F.L. Jones 'Shelley and Milton', SP 49 (1952) 488-519
Murray McArthur Stolen Writings: Blake's Milton, Joyce's Ulysses and the Nature
of Influence, Studies in Mod Lit 87, 1988
Jerome McGann "Milton and Byron" Keats Shelley Memorial Bulletin 25(1974)
9-25
Leslie Moore Beautiful Sublime: The Making of Paradise Lost 1701-1734, 1990
James G. Nelson The Sublime Puritan: Milton and the Victorians, 1963
Lucy Newlyn Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader, 1993
Henry F. Pommer Milton and Melville, 1950.
David Riede B1ake's Milton' in Re-membering Milton, 1987
Nicholas Roe 'Wordsworth, Milton, and the Politics of Poetic Influence' Yearbook
of English Studies 19 (1989) 112-26
Denis Saurat Blake and Milton, 1920
G.F. Sensabaugh Milton in Early America, 1964.
John Shawcross Milton 1628-1731: The Critical Heritace, 1970
Milton 1732-1801: The Critical Heritage, 1972
John Milton and Influence, 1991
Lydia D. Schulman Paradise Lost and the Rise of the American Republic, 192
Various The Miltonic Presence, MS 11 (1978)
Joseph Wittreich 'The Illustrious Dead: Milton's Legacy and Romantic Prophecy'
Milton and the Romantics 4 (1980) 17-32
The Romantics on Milton, 1970
Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of Milton, 1975
Milton and the Line of Vision, 1975
MILTON AND ART
Roy Daniells Milton, Mannerism and Baroque, 1963.
Roland M. Frye Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts 1978.
Helmut Hatzfeld 'Use and Misuse of Baroque as a Critical Term in Literary History',
UTQ 31 (1962).
Ida Langdon Milton's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, 1924.
Lowry Nelson Baroque Lyric Poetry, 1961.
Murray Roston Milton and the Baroque, 1980.
Wylie Sypher The Four Stages of Renaissance Style 1955.
J. B. Trapp 'The Iconography of the Fall of Man' in C. A. Patrides Approaches
to Paradise Lost, 1968.
Rosemond Tuve 'Baroque and Mannerist Milton?' JEGP 60 (1961).
Rene Wellek 'The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship', Journal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism 5 (1946).
H. Woelfflin Principles of Art History, 1932.
Renaissance und Barock, tr. K. Simon, 1966.
MILTON AND MUSIC
Agar, Herbert Milton and Plato. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1965.
Allen, Don Cameron 'Introduction.' The Harmonious Vision. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins Press, 1970, xi-xx.
Babb, Lawrence The Moral Cosmos of Paradise Lost. Michigan State University
Press, 1970.
Banks, Theodore Howard Milton's Imagery. New York: Columbia University Press,
1950.
Brennecke, Ernest John Milton the Elder and his Music, 1938.
Brophy, James D 'Milton's 'Warble': The Trill as Metaphor of Concord.' Milton
Quarterly 19 (1985): 105-109.
Cook, Eleanor 'Melos versus Logos: Or, Why Doesn't God Sing: Some Thoughts on
Milton's Wisdom' in Re-Membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions.
New York: Methuen, 1987, 197-2 10.
Darbishire, Helen Early Lives of Milton. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965.
Audrey Davidson 'Milton on the Music of Henry Lawes', MN 2 (1968) 19-23
Willa Evans Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets, 1941
Gretchen Finney Musical Backgrounds for English Literature 1580-1650,
1963.
Frank, Mortimer H 'Milton's Knowledge of Music: Some Speculations.'
Frye, Northrop 'Introduction: Lexis and Melos.' Sound and Poetry. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1956, ix-xxvii.
Hadow, William Henry 'Milton's Knowledge of Music.' Milton Memorial Lectures.
Ed. Percy W. Ames. New York: Haskell House, 1964, 11-22.
Hollander, John The Untuning of the Sky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1961, 315-331.
Clay Hunt Lycidas and the Italian Critics, 1979.Hunter, W. B. 'Music of the
Spheres' 'Milton and Music' in A Milton Encyclopedia 5 173-175
Hutton, James 'Some English Poems in Praise of Music.' English Miscellany 2
(1951): 1-63
Mander, M.N.K. 'The Epistola ad Patrem: Milton's Apology for Poetry.' Milton
Quarterly 23 (1989): 158-166.
Mander, M.N.K. 'Milton and the Music of the Spheres.' Milton Quarterly 24 (1990):
63-7 1
Winifred Maynard 'Milton and Music', J.B.Broadbent John Milton:
Introduction,1973
Brian Morris 'Not without Song: Milton and the Composers' in C.A.Patrides ,
Approaches to PL, 1968
Oras, Ants 'Spenser and Milton: Some Parallels and Contrasts in the Handling
of Sound.' Frye 109-133.
Spaeth, Sigmund Milton's Knowledge of Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973.
Stapleton, Laurence 'Milton and the New Music.' Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism.
Ed. Arthur E. Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965, 3 1-42.
Various Milton and the Art of the Sacred Song. Eds. Patrick and Sundell. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1979, 83-98.
Various Ascent of Man: 'Music of the Spheres.' Videocassette. Time Life Video,
1987. 52 mm.
MILTON AND DANCE
Catherine Cox 'Dance and the Narration of Providence in PL' MS 26 (1991) 159-92
Louis Horst Pre-Classic Dance Forms, 1940
Jean Knowlton 'Some Dances of the Stuart Masque' Diss, Indiana, 1966
W.A. Sessions 'Milton and the Dance' in Albert Labriola Milton's Legacy in the
Arts, 1988
MILTON AND SCIENCE
Walter C. Curry Milton's Ontology, Cosmology, and Physics, 1957
H. S. Marjara Contemplation of Created Things: Science in PL, 1992
Donald Friedman 'Galileo and the Art of Seeing' in Mario Di Cesare Milton in
Italy, 1991
A. H. Gilbert 'Milton and Galileo' SP 19 (1922) 152-85
H. S. Herz 'For Whom this Glorious Sight' Dante, Milton, and the
Galileo Question' in Mario Di Cesare Milton in Italy
Grant McColley 'Milton's Dialogue on Astronomy' PMLA 52 (1937) 728-62
'The Astronomy of Paradise Lost' SP 34 (1937) 209-47
M. H. Nicolson The Breaking the Circle, 1960
'Milton and the Telescope' ELH 2 (1935) 1-32
Science and Imagination, 1956
'The New Astronomy' MP 32 (1935) 233-60
Kester Svendsen Milton and Science, 1956
Julia Walker 'Milton and Galileo' MS 25 (1989) 109-23
MILTON IN ITALY
John Arthos Milton and the Italian Cities, 1972
Mario Di Cesare Milton in Italy, 1991
James Holly Hanford 'Milton in Italy' Annuale Mediaevale 5 (19640 49-63
THE NATIVITY ODE
Tradition
D. C. Allen 'The Higher Compromise' in The Harmonious Vision, 1954
J. B. Broadbent 'The NO', in Frank Kermode The Living Milton, 1960
A. S. Cook 'Notes on Milton's 'Ode on the Morning of Christ's
Nativity'', Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 (1909)
307-68
Patrick Cullen 'Imitation and Metamorphosis: The Golden-Age Eclogue in Spenser,
Milton, and Marvell' PMLA 84 (1969) 1559-70
Victor Erlich 'Milton's Early Poetry: Its Christian Humanism' American Imago
32 (1975) 77-112
J. Martin Evans The Miltonic Moment, 1998, chapter 1
Lawrence W. Hyman 'Christ's Nativity and the Pagan Deities' MS 2 (1970)
103-12
L. W. Kingsley 'Mythic Dialectic in the NO' MS 4 (1972) £63-76
C.A. Patrides 'The Cessation of the Oracles: The History of a Legend' MLR 9
(1965) 500-507
David Quint 'Expectation and Prematurity in Milton's Nativity Ode' MP 97 (1999)
195-219
Linda C. Sledge Shivering Babe: Victorious Lord - The Nativity in Poetry and
Art, l981
Kathleen M. Swaim 'Mighty Pan: Tradition and an Image in Milton's NO' SP 68
(1971) 484-95
Donald Swanson 'Milton's On the Morning . . The Virgilian and Biblical Matrices'
MQ 23 (1989) 59-66
Rosemund Tuve 'The Hymn 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' in Images and
Themes in Five Poems by Milton, 1957
Genre
Howard Dobin 'Milton's Nativity Ode: '0 what A Mask was There'' MQ 17.3 (1983)
71-80
Paul H. Fry The Poet's Calling in the English Ode, 1980
L. H. Jacobs 'Unexpressive Notes: The Decorum of Milton's NO' Essays in Literature
1 (1974) 166-77
John Jump The Ode, 1974
Carol Maddison Apollo and the Nine, 1960
Lowry Nelson Baroque Lyric Poetry, 1961
Philip Rollinson 'Milton's NO and the Decorum of Genre' MS 7 (1975)
165-88
Robert Shafer The English Ode to 1660, 1918
George N. Shuster The English Ode from Milton to Keats, 1940
John Heath-Stubbs The Ode, 1969
Narrator
Donald Friedman 'Harmony and the Poet's Voice in Some of Milton's Early Poems'
MLQ 30 (1969) 523-34
Richard Halpern 'The Great Instauration: imaginary narratives in Milton's 'Nativity
Ode'' in Mary Nyquist, Margaret Ferguson, Re-membering Milton, 1987
Frank S. Kastor 'Miltonic Narration: 'Christ's Nativity'' Anglia 86 (1968) 339-52Hugh
MacCallum 'The Narrator of Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' in
Patricia Bruckmann Familiar Colloquy: Essays Presented to Arthur Edward Barker,
1978
General
Arthur E. Barker 'The Pattern of Milton's NO', UTQ 10 (1941) 167-81
S. C. Behrendt 'Blake's Illustrations to Milton's NO' PQ 55 (1976)
6 5-95
M.J. Doherty 'Salvation History, Poetic Form etc in Milton's NO' MS 25 (1989)
21-42
R. L. Entzminger 'The Epiphanies in Milton's Nativity Ode' Renaissance
Papers, 1961
R. M. Fransson 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' Explicator 48
(1990) 249-51
G. F. Goekjian 'Deference and Silence: Milton's Nativity Ode' MS 21
(1985) 119-136
I.S. MacLaren 'Milton's NO: the Function of Poetry and Structures of Response
in 1629' MS 15 (1981) 181-200
T. K. Meier 'Milton's NO: Sectarian Discord' MLR 65 (1970) 7-10
David B. Morris 'Drama and Stasis in Milton's 'Ode on the Morning of
Christ's Nativity'' SP 68 (1971) 207-22
C.M. Pecheux 'The Nativity Tradition in Elegia VI' MS 23 (1987) 3-19
Ealachandra Rajan 'In Order Serviceable', MLR 63 (1968) 12-32
3. R. Romano 'Heaven's Youngest Teemed Star' MQ 15 (11981) 80-89
Beverley Sherry 'Milton's Mystic Nativity' MQ (1983)
George W. Smith 'Milton's Method of Mistakes in the NO' SEL 17 (1978)
107-23
L. Stapleton 'Milton and the New Music' UTQ 23 (1953-4) 217-26
LYCIDAS
Anthologies and Casebooks
Scott Elledge Milton's Lycidas, 1966
T.P. Harrison The Pastoral Elegy, 1939
W. Kirkconnell Awake the Courteous Echo, 1973
C.A. Patrides Mi1ton's Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem, 1983
The Tradition
Paul Alpers 'The Eclogue Tradition arid the literature of Pastoral' CE 34 (1972)
352-71
J.M. Evans The Road from Horton: Looking Backwards in Lycidas, 1983
J.H. Hanford 'The Pastoral Elegy and Milton's Lycidas' PMLA 25 (1910) 403-47
(in Patrides)
Clay Hunt Lycidas and the Italian Critics, 1979
Dennis Kay Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton,
1990
E.Z. Lambert Placing Sorrow: A Study of the Pastoral Elegy Tradition from Theocritus
to Miilton, 1976
Louis L. Martz 'Who is Lycidas?' yale French Studies 47 (1972) 170-88
C.W. Mayerson 'The Orpheus Image in 'Lycidas',' PMLA 64 (1949) 189-207 and in
Patrides, 1983.
George W. Pigman Grief and English Renaissance Elegy 1985
Renato Poggioli The Gaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the
Pastoral Ideal, 1975
F. T. Prince The Italian Element in Milton's Verse, 1954
Joanne M. Riley Miiton's Lycidas: New Light on the Title,' 24 (1977)
545
Peter M. Sacks The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats,
1985
Eric Smith By Mourning Tongues: Studies in English Elegy, 1977
Rcsemond Tuve Images and Themes in Five Poems by Milton, 1957
J. A. Wittreich Visionary Poetics: Milton's Tradition and his Legacy, 1979
The Speaker
S.A. Baker Mi1ton's Uncouth Swain' MS 3 (1971) 35-53
David B Berkeley 'Typology and Lycidas' in Inwrought with Figures Dim
1974, pp. 12-36
S.E. Fish 'Lycidas: A Poem Finally Anonymous' Glyph 8 (1981) 1-18
D. M. Friedman 'Lycidas: the Swain's Paideia' MS 3 (1971) 3-34
E. M. W. Tillyard 'Lycidas' in Milton, 1930, pp. 79-85
General
John Creaser 'Lycidas: The Power of Art' E&S 34 (1981) 123-47
J. M. French 'The Digressions in Milton's 'Lycidas',' SP 50 (1953)
485-90
J. Karl Franson 'The Fatal Voyage of Edward King' MS 25 (1989) 43-67Lawrence
Lipking 'The Genius of the Shore: Lycidas, Adamastor, and the Poetics of Nationalist'
PMLA 111 (1996) 205-21
W.B. Madsen 'The Voice of Michae1 in 'Lycidas' ,' SEL 3 (1963) 1-7
J. C. C. Ransom 'A Poem Nearly Anonymous' in Patrides, 1983
Glare Shiwsky 'Lycidas: Milton's Doric Song' NQ 28 (1981) 202-5
COMUS
Texts
W.A. Wright A Facsimile of the MS of Milton's Minor Poems, Cambridge,1899.
L. S. Livingston Comus, A Facsimile Edition, New York, 1903.
John Milton English Poems, Comus 1645, Scolar, 1968.
J. S. Diekhoff A Maske at Ludlow, 1968
S. E. Sprott John Milton, A Maske, The Earlier Versions, Toronto,
1973.
Textual Studies
J. S. Diekhcff 'The Text of Comus, 1634-45' PMLA 52 (1937) 705-28.
H.J.C. Grierson The Poems of John Milton, London, ~925, introduction.
C. S. Lewis 'A Note on Comus', RES 8 (1932) 170-76.
Laura Lockwood 'Milton's Corrections to the Minor Poems' MLN 25 (1910)
Michael Macklem 'Love, Nature, and Grace in Milton's Poetry', QQ 56
534-47
J. T. Shawcross 'Certain Relationships of the MSS of Comus' PBSA 54
(1960) 35-56, 293-4.
'Speculations on the Dating of the Trinity MS' MLN 75
(1960) 11-17.
G. W. Smith Jr 'Milton's Revisions and the Design of Comus' ELH 46
(1979) 56-80
D. H. Stevens 'The Bridqewater MS of Comus', Milton Papers, Chicago, 1927.
E.M.W.Tillyard 'The Action of Comus', Studies in Milton, 1951
Genre
C.L.Barber 'A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle: the Masque as Masque' in J.H.Summers
The Lyric and Dramatic Milton, 1965
Cedric C. Brown John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments, 1985
John G. Demaray Milton and the Masque Tradition, 1968
Angus Fletcher The Transcendental Masque: an Essay on Milton's Comus, 1971
Eugene Haun 'An Inquiry into the Genre of Comus' in Essays in Honor of Walter
Clyde Curry, 1954
David Lindley The Court Masque, 1984
Jeanne S. Martin 'Transformations in Genre in Milton's Comus', Genre 10 (1977)
195-213
M.A. Treip 'Comus and the Stuart Masque Connection' ANQ A Quarterly Journal
of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 2 (1989) 83-9
Context
Robert M. Adams 'Reading Comus', Ikon: Mi1ton and the Modern Critics, 1955
Barbara Breasted 'Comus and the Castlehaven Scandal', MS 3 (1971)
201-224
Cedric C. Brown John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments, 1985 'Presidential
Travels and Instructive Augury in Milton's Ludlow Mask' in Comus: Contexts
John Creaser 'Milton's Comus: the Irrelevance of the Castlehaven Scandal' NQ
31 (1984) 307-17 and in Comus:Contexts
'The Present aid of this occasion: The Settinq of Comus' in David Lindley, The
Court Masque, l984
William B. Hunter Milton's Comus: Family Piece, 1984
'The Liturgical Context of Comus', ELN l0 (1972) 14-15
David Lloyd 'Ludlow Castle' in Comus: Contexts
Anthony Mortimer 'Comus and Michaelmas' Eng1ish Studies 65 (1984) 111-19
Rosemary Mundhenk 'Dark Scandal and the Sun-C1ad Power of Chastity' SEL 15 (1975)
141-52
Leah S. Marcus 'The Milieu of Milton's Comus' Criticism 25 (1983)
293-327
'Justice for Margery Evans: A Local Reading of Comus' in Julia M. Wa1ker, Milton
and the Idea of Woman, 1968
'The Earl of Bridgewater's Legal Life: Notes toward a Political Reading of Comus'
in Comus: Contexts and MQ 21 (1987) 13-23
G.S.Sensabaugh 'The Milieu of Comus' SP 41 (l944) 238-49
James G. Taafe 'Michaelmas, the Lawless Hour, and the Occasion of Milton's Comus',
ELH 6 (l969).
Various Comus: Contexts, MQ 21 (1987)
K. F. Wieland 'Michaelmas and Milton's Ludlow Masque' Massachusetts Studies
in English 10 (l986) 197-206
Michae1 Wilding 'Milton's 'A Masque Presented at Ludlow Cast1e, 1634: Theatre
and Politics on the Border' in Dragon's Teeth and Comus: Contexts
Chastity
Joan Bennett 'Virgin Nature in Comus' MS 23 (1997) 21-32
G.Christopher 'The Virginity of Faith: Comus as Reformation Conceit' ELH 43
(1976) 479-99
J. Martin Evans The Miltonic Moment, chapter 2
Thomas J. Ewbry 'The Ideal of Chastity in Milton's Early Poetry' Diss Abs International
42 (1982) 3609A
C. Kendrick 'Milton and Sexuality: A Symptoinatic Reading of Comus' in Mary
Nyquist and Margaret Ferguson, Re-membering Milton, 1987
M.C. McGuire Milton's Puritan Masque, 1984
Miscel1aneous
R. Baruch Milton's Comus: Skill, Virtue, & Henry Lawes' MS 5
(1973)
Eugene Cunnar 'Milton, The Shepherd of Hermas, and the Writing of a
Puritan Masque,' MS 23 (1987) 33-52
A.E.Dyson 'The Interpretation of Comus,' E&S ns 8 (1955) 89-114
Stanley Fish 'Problem So1ving in Comus' in Earl Miner, Illustrious
Evidence, 1975
R. M. Largent 'A Multilevel Celebration' MQ 22 (1988) 63-6
Annabel Patterson ''Forc'd Finqers': Milton's Early Poems and Ideological Constraint'
in Claude J. Summers and Ted-
Larry Pebworth, The Muses Common-weale: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth
Century, 1986
A.S.P.Woodhouse 'The Argument of Milton's Comus', UTQ 11 (1941) 46-71
'Comus Once More', UTQ 19 (1950) 218-223
SONNETS
Editions
E.A.J. Honigmnnn Mi1tcn's Sonnets, 1966.
John S.Smart The Sonnets of Milton 1921
General
John Finley 'Milton and Horace: A Study of Milton's Sonnets' Harvard Studies
in Classical Philology 48 (1937) 29-73
J.H. Hanford 'The Arrangement and Dates of Milton's Sonnets' MP 18 (1921), 475-83
D.V. Harrington 'Feeling and Form in Milton's Sonnets' Western_Humanities Review
20 (1966) 317~8
Jerome Mazzaro "Gaining Authority: John Milton at Sonnets" Essays
in Literature (Western Illinois University 15 (1988)3-12
William McCarthy 'The Continuity of Milton's Sonnets' PMLA 92 (1977) 96-109
James G. Mengert 'The Resistance of Milton's Sonnets' ELR 11 (1981) 81-95
Janel Mueller 'The Mastery of Decorum: Politics as Poetry in Milton's Sonnets'
Critical Inquiry 13 (1987) 475-508
Annabel Patterson 'That Old Man Eloquent' in Diana Trevino Benet and Michael
Lieb, Literary Milton, 1994, pp. 22-44
M.A. Radzinowicz 'The Sonnets' in Toward Samson Agonistes, 1978, pp.
128-44
Kurt Schlueter 'Milton's Heroical Sonnets' SEL 35 (1995) 123-36
Taylor Stoehr 'Syntax and Poetic Form in Milton's Sonnets' ES 45 (1964), 289-3O1
Sonnet 7
M. Cheek 'Of Two Sonnets of Milton' in Arthur Barker, Mi1ton, 1965
W.A. Schullenberger 'The Power of the Copu1a in Milton's Sonnet VII' MS 15 (1981),
2O1~212
Sonnet 18
Nicholas R. Jones 'The Education of the Faithful in Milton's Piedmontese Sonnet'
MS 10 (1977) 167-76
L. Hyman 'Milton's 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont'' ELN 3 (1965) 26-9
Kester Svendsen 'Milton's Sonnet on the Massacre in Piedmont' Shakespeare Association
Bulletin 20 (1945) 147-55
Sonnet 19
Ann Gossman et al 'Milton's First Sonnet on His Blindness' RES 12 (1961) 364-7O
William R. Parker 'The Dates of Mi1ton's Sonnets on Blindness' PMLA 73 (1958)
196-200
Fitzroy Pyle 'Milton's First Sonnet on His B1indness' RES 9 (1958)
376-87
Harry F. Robins 'Milton's First Sonnet on His Blindness' RES 7 (1956)
360-66
R.L. S1akey 'Milton's Sonnet On His Blindness' ELH 28 (1960) 122-30
C.A. Stringer 'Milton's Thorn in the Flesh: Pauline Didacticism in Sonnet XIX'
MS 10 (1977) 141~-54
Sonnet 23
J, J. Colaccio 'A 'Death Like Sleep: the Christology of Milton~s Twenty-third
Sonnet' MS 6 (1973) 181-97
C.R. Dahlberg 'Milton's Sonnet 23' NQ 194 (1949) 321
Dixon Fiske 'The Theme of Purification in Sonnet XXIII' MS 7 (l974) 149-63
K. Heinzelman 'Cold Consolation: The Art of Milton's Last Sonnet' MS 10 (1977)
111-25 -
J.S., Hill 'Alcestis from the Grave: Image and Structure in Sonnet XX1II' MS
10 (1977) 127-39
J. Huntley 'Milton's 23rd Sonnet' ELH 34 (1967) 468-81
E. S. LeComte 'The Veiled Face of Milton's Wife' NQ 1 (1954) 245-6
M. N. Mueller 'The Theme and Imagery of Milton's Last Sonnet' Archiv 201 (1964)
267-71
W.,R. Parker 'Milton's Last Sonnet: Addressed to First or Second Wife?' RES
21 (1945) 235-3
Fitzroy Pyle 'Milton's Sonnet on His Late Espoused Saint' RES 25
(1949) 57-60
T.B. Stroup 'Aeneas Vision of Creusa and Milton's Twenty-third Sonnet' PQ 39
(1960) 125-6
Thomas Wheeler 'Milton's Twenty-third Sonnet' SP 58 (1961) 510-15
N.L. Williamson 'A Reading of Milton's Twenty-third Sonnet' MS 4 (l971) 141-9
PROSE
Editions
F.A. Patterson The Works of John Milton, 18 vols, Columbia University Press,
1931-
Don N, Wolfe Complete Prose Works of John Milton, 8 vols, Yale
University Press 1953-82.
Backgound
Arthur Barker Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1942
Stanley Fish Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth Century
Literature, 1972
Christopher Hill Milton and the English Revolution, 1977
Max Patrick et al. Style,Rhetoric and Rhythm: Essays-by Morris Croll, 207-33
F. S. Siebert 'The Control of the Press During the Puritan Revolution' in Freedom
of the Press in England, 1476-1776 1952
Joan Webber The Eloquent 'I': Style_and Self in Seventeenth Century Prose, 1968
George Williamson The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier,
1951
Don N. Wolfe Milton and the Puritan Revolution, 1945
Style
Thomas N. Corns The Development of Milton's Prose, 1982
W.E. Gilman Milton's Rhetoric: Studies in His Defense_of Liberty,
1939
K. G. Hamilton 'The Structure of Milton's Prose' in Ronald Emma and
John Shawcross, Language and Style in Milton, 1967,
pp. 304-42
Henry S. Limouze Joseph Hall and the Prose Style of John Milton' MS 15
(1981) 121-141
J, H. Neumann Milton's Prose Vocabulary' PMLA 60 (1945) 102-20
Keith W. Stavely The Politics of Milton's Prose Style, 1975
E.N.S. Thompson 'Milton's Prose Style' PQ 14 (1935) 1-15
General Criticism
James Egan Public Truth and Personal Witness in Milton's Last Tracts' ELH 40
(1973) 231-84
C.Kendrick Milton: A Study in Ideology and Form, 1986
Thomas Kranidas The Fierce Equation, 1965
M.Lieb, et al. Achievements of the Left Hand, 1978
Annabel Patterson 'The Civic Hero in Milton's Prose' MS 8 71-101
R.C. Richardson Freedom and the_English Revolution, 1986
Emile Saillens John Milton: Man, Poet, Polemicist, 1964
Paul Stevens 'Discontinuities in Milton's Early Public Self-Representation'
HLQ 51 (1988) 261-80
Anti-Prelatical Tracts
Ronald W. Cooley, "Iconoclasm and Self-Definition in Milton's Of Reformation"
Religion and Literature 23 (1991) 23-37
Stanley Fish, "Reasons that Imply Themselves: Imagery, Argument and the
Reader in Milton's Reason of Church Government" in Earl Miner (ed.), Seventeenth
Century Imagery, 1971, pp. 83-102
Thomas Kranidas, ''Decorum' and the Style of Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts'
in Stanley Fish (ed), Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism,
Oxford, UP,1971, pp. 475-88
'Words, Words, Words, and the Word: Milton's Of Prelatical Episcopacy' MS 16
(1982) 153-66
Michael Lieb 'Milton's Of Reformation and the Dynamics of Controversy' in Achievements
of the Left Hand, 55-82
D. M. Rosenberg 'Style and Meaning in Milton's Anti-Episcopal Tracts' Criticism
15 (1973) 43-57
John A. Via 'Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts: The Poet Speaks in Prose' MS 5
87-127
'Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts: The Poet Speaks in Prose' MS 5 (1973) 87-127
Divorce Tracts
Arthur Barker 'Christian Liberty in Milton's Divorce Pamphlets' MLR 35 (1940)
153-61
Matthew Biberman 'Milton, Marriage, and a Woman's Right to Divorce' SEL 39 (1999)
131-53
Purvis Boyette, "Milton's Divorce Tracts and the Law of Marriage"
Tulane Studies in English 17 (1969) 73-92
Lana Cable, "Coupling Logic and Milton's Doctrine of Divorce" MS 15
(1981) 143-59
Stephen M. Fallon, "The Spur of Self-Concernment: Milton in his Divorce
Tracts" MS 38 (2000) 220-242
Elizabeth Hodgson 'When God Proposes: Theology and Gender in Tetrachordon' MS
31 (1994) 133-54
Amy R. McCready 'Milton's Casuistry: the case of The Doctrine and Discipline
of Divorce' Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1992) 393-428
Political Tracts
Sara Achinstein 'Milton catches the consience of the King: Eikonoklastes and
the Engagement Controversy' MS 29 (1992) 143-63
Zera Fink 'The Theory of the Mixed State and the Development of Milton's Political
Thought' PMLA 57 (1942) 705-36
Richard Helgerson 'Milton Reads the King's Book: Print, Performance, and the
Making of a Bourgeois Idol' Criticism 29 (1987) 1-25
R. Kenneth Kirby 'Milton's Biblical Hermeneutics in The Doctrine and Discipline
of Divorce' MQ 18 (1984) 116-25
Barbara Lewalski 'Milton: Political Beliefs and Polemical Methods,
1659-60' PMLA 74 (1959) 191-202
David Loewenstein, 'Casting Down Imaginations': Milton as Iconoclast' Criticism
31 (1989) 253-70
M. A. Radzinowicz 'Occasions Drew Me: Political Intention in Milton's Prose'
in Toward Samson Agonistes, 1978
Herman Rapaport 'Milton and the State', 'Blessing the Text', in Milton and the
Postmodern, 1983
Ernest Sirluck Milton's Political Thought: The First Cycle' MP 61 (1964) 209-24
Keith W. Stavely, 'The Style and Structure of Milton's Readie and Easie Way'
MS 5 (1973) 269-87 (1660)
Stanley Stewart 'Mi1ton Revises The Readie and Easie Way' MS 20 (1984) 205 -224
Areopagitica
Stephen Burt 'To the Unknown God: St. Paul and Athens in Milton's
Areopagitica MQ 32 (1998) 23-31
John X. Evans 'Imagery as Argument in Milton's Areopagitica' TSLL 8
(1966) 189-205
Christopher Kendrick 'Ethics and the Orator in Areopagitica' ELH 50 (1983) 655-91
Anne B. Long 'She May Have More Shapes than One': Milton and the Modern Idea
that Truth Changes' MS 6, 85-99
Alan F. Price 'Incidental Imagery in Areopagitica' MP 49 (1952)
217-22
B. Rajan 'Cunning Resemblance' MS 7 29-48
Herbert Read 'The Areopagitica' in A Coat of Many Colors, 1945
H. R. Smallenburg 'Contiguities and Moving Limbs: Sty1e as Argument in
Areopagitica'MS 9 169-84
Juanita Whitaker 'The Wars of Truth: Wisdom and Strength in Areopagitica' MS
9 185-201
Michael Wilding 'Milton's Areopagitica: Liberty for the Sects' Prose
Studies 9 (1986) 7-38
Arnold Williams 'Areopagitica Revisited' UTQ 14 (1944) 74
J. A. Wittreich 'Milton's Areopagitica: Its Isocratic and Ironic
Contexts' MS 4 (1972) 101-115
Education
Ann Baynes Coiro ''To repair the ruins of our first parents': Of Education
and Fallen Adam' SEL 28 (1988) 133-47
Wyman H. Herendeen, 'Milton's Accedence Commenc't Grammar and the
Deconstruction of Grammatical Tyrrany' in P. G. Stanwood, Of Poetry and Politics:
New Essays on Milton and His World, pp. 295-312
Gary D. Hamilton, 'The History of Britain and its Restoration Audience' in David
Loewenstein and James G. Turner, Poetics and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose,
1990, pp. 241-55
E. N. S. Thompson, 'Milton's Of Education' SP 15 (1918) 159-75
Gauri Viswanathan 'Milton, Imperialism, and Education' MLQ 59 (1998) 345-61
Latin Tracts
Robert T. Fallon, 'A Second Defence: Milton's Critique of Cromwell?' MS 39
(2000) 167-83
Richard L. Hoffman 'The Rhetorical Structure of Milton's Second Defence of the
People of England' Studia Neophilologica 43 (1971) 227-45
William B. Hunter, 'The Provenance of the Christian Doctrine' SEL 32 (1992)
129-42
Barbara Lewalski, 'Milton's Christian Doctrine' SEL 32 (1992) 143-54
David Loewenstein 'Milton and the Poetics of Defense' in David
Loewenstein and James G. Turner (eds) Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in
Milton's Prose, 1990
PARADISE LOST
General
Stanley Fish 'The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost' Critical Quarterly 7 (1965)
162-82
John Rumrich 'Uninventing Milton' MP 87 (1990) 249-65
Milton's Plans
A. H. Gilbert On the Composition of PL, 1947
Grant McColley Paradise Lost, An Account of Its Growth and Major Origins 1940,
chs. 11-12
George K. Hunter Paradise Lost, 1980. chs 1-3
Epic Elements
M. Aryanpur 'PL and the Odyssey' TSLL 9 (1967)
F. Blessington PL and the Classical Epic, 1979
'Virgil and Milton' Classical Journal 47 (1952)
R. M. Boltwood 'Turnus and Satan as Epic Villains' Classical Journal
47 (1952)
M. Bowra From Virgil to Milton, 1945
Douglas Bush 'Virgil and Milton' Classical Journal 47 (1952)
Ralph W. Condee Milton's Theories Concerning Epic Poetry: Their Sources and
Their Influence, 1949
W. Connely 'Imprints of the Aeneid on PL' CJ 18 (1923)
M. Di Cesare 'PL and Epic Tradition' MS 1 (1969)
K.W. Grandsen 'PL and, the Aeneid' EC 17 (1967)
Thomas M. Greene The Descent from Heaven, 1963
D.P. Harding The Club of Hercules, 1962
C.S. Lewis A Preface to PL, 1942
C. Martindale John Milton and the Transformation of Ancient Epic,
1986
M. Mueller 'PL and the Iliad' Comparative Literature Studies 6 (1969)
Balachandra Rajan 'Paradise Lost: The Uncertain Epic' MS 17 (1983) 105-19
J. Richardson 'Virgil and Milton once again' Comparative Literature 14 (1962)
John E. Seaman The Epic Art of PL (Stanford dissertation) 1962
Duncan J. Spaeth 'Epic Conventions in PL' Elizabethan Studies in Honor of George
F. Reynolds, 1945
T.J.B. Spencer 'PL: The Anti-Epic' Approaches to PL ed C.A. Patrides,1968
John N. Steadman 'The Classical Hero: Satan and Ulysses' in Milton's
Epic Characters, 1968
Epic and Tragic Structure in PL, 1976
E.M.W. Tillyard The English Epic and Its Background, 1954
'Milton and Epic' The Miltonic Setting, 1949
Joan Webber Milton and His Epic Tradition, 1979
A.S.P. Woodhouse 'Pattern in PL' UTQ 22 (1953)
Dramatic Elements
A. E. Barker 'Structural Pattern in PL' Milton, Modern Essays in
Criticism, 1965, PQ, 27 (1949)
John G. DeMaray Milton's Theatrical Epic, 1980
A.H. Gilbert 'Milton and the Mysteries' SP 17 (1920)
J. H. Hanford 'The Dramatic Element in PL' SP 14 (1917)
R.L. Ramsay 'Morality Themes in Milton's Poetry' SP 15 (1918)
Style
Robert A. Adams 'Milton's Verse' in Ikon: Milton and the Modern Critics, 1955.
Peter Berek 'Plain and Ornate Styles and the Structure of Paradise Lost', PMLA
85 (1970).
John B. Broadbent 'Milton's Mortal Voice' in C. A. Patrides, Approaches to Paradise
Lost, 1968.
Archie Burnett Milton's Style: The Short Poems, Paradise Regained &
Samson Agonistes, 1981.
Douglas Bush Paradise Lost in our Time, 1945, ch. 4.
T. S. Eliot 'A Note on the Verse of John Milton', E&S 21 1936.
'Milton', British Academy Lecture, 1947.
R. D. Emma and Language and Style in Milton, 1967
John T. Shawcross
Davis P. Harding 'Answerable Style! in The Club of Hercules, 1962.
F. R. Leavis 'Milton's Verse' in Revaluation, 1936.
'In Defense of Milton',Scrütin~ 7 (1938) and The Common Pursuit, 1952.
'Mr Eliot and Mr Milton' in The Common Pursuit, 1952.
C. S. Lewis A Preface to Paradise Lost, 1942, chs. 7-8.
D. R., Pearce 'The Style of Milton's Epic' in A. R. Barker, Milton:
Modern Essays in Criticism., 1965.
F. T. Prince The Italian Element in Milton's Verse, 1954.
B. Rajan 'The Style of Paradise Lost' in Paradise Lost and the
Seventeenth Century Reader, 1947.
Christopher Ricks Milton's Grand Style, 1963.
Todd Sammons Stylistic Variation in Paradise Lost(dissertation, Stanford) 1979
Irene Samuel 'Milton on Style', Cornell Library Journal, 9 (1969).
Arnold Stein 'Answerable Style' in Answerable Style, 1953.
E.M. W. Tillyard 'A Note on Milton's Style' in The Miltonic Setting, 1938.
Diction
Lalia P. Boone 'The Language of Book VI of Paradise Lost', SAMLA Studies in
Milton, ed. J. Max Patrick, 1953.
J. R. Brown 'Some Notes on the Native Elements in the Diction of
Paradise Lost', NQ 192 (1951).
B. N. Clark 'Milton's English Poetical Vocabulary' SF 53 (1956).
Helen Darbishire 'Milton's Poetic Language', E&S 1957.
Hugh S. Davies 'Milton and the Vocabulary of Verse and Prose' in George Watson,
Literary English Since Shakespeare, 1970.
James H. Hanford A Milton Handbook, 5th ed., 1970, ch. 6.
E. Holmes 'Some Notes on Milton's Use of Words' E&S 10 (1924).
William Ingram & A Concordance to Milton's English Poetry, 1971
K. M. Swaim
Edward Le Comte A Milton Dictionary, 1961.
A Dictionary of Puns in Milton's English Poetry, 1981
B. Rajan 'The Language of Paradise Lost' in Milton, ed. Louis L. Martz, 1966.
Mindele Treip Milton's Pronunciation and Changing English Usage
1582-1676, 1970.
C.L. Wrenn 'The Language of Milton' in Studies in English Language and Literature
Presented to Dr. Kark Brunner, 1958.
B. A. Wright Milton's Paradise Lost, 1962, ch. 3.
'A Note on Milton's Diction' in Amadeus P. Fiore,
Th'Upright Heart and Pure, 1967.
Syntax
Seymour Chapman 'Milton's Participial Style', PMLA 83 (1968).
Donald Davie 'Syntax and Music in Paradise Lost' in Frank Kermode, The Living
Milton, 1960.
Ronald Emma Milton's Grammar, 1964
Gustav Hubener Die Stilistische Spannung in Milton's Paradise Lost 1913.
G. L. Musacchio 'Milton's Feminine Pronouns with Neuter Antecedents', JEL 2
(1968.).
Prosody
Theodore Banks 'Miltonic Rhythm', PMLA 42 (1927).
Robert Beum 'So much Gravity and Ease' in Emma and Shawcross, ibid.
Robert Bridges Milton's Prosody, 1921, 1965.
Albert Cook 'Milton's Abstract Music', UTQ 29 (1960)
John S. Diekhoff 'Terminal Pause in Milton's Verse', SP 32 (1935).
W. B. Hunter 'The Sources of Milton's Prosody', PQ 28 (1949).
Arnold Stein 'Structures of Sound in Milton's Verse' KR 15 (1953).
S. B. Sprott Milton's Art of Prosody, 1953.
W. B. C. Watkins An Anatomy of Milton's Verse, 1955.
Similes
W. 0. Anderson 'Notes on the Simile in Homer and his Successors: II. Milton',
Classical Journal 53 (1957) 127-33.
R. 0. Bedford 'Similes of Unlikeness in PL', EC 25 (1975)
179-97.
William Empson 'Milton and Bentley' in Some Versions of Pastoral, 1960.
Stanley Fish 'Yet Never Saw' in Surprised by Sin, 1967.
Linda Gregerson 'The Limbs of Truth: Milton's Use of Similes in Paradise Lost'
MS 14 (1980) 135-52
J. H. Hanford A Milton Handbook, ch. 6.
Geoffrey Hartman 'Milton's Counterplot' in A. E. Barker, Milton: Modern Essays
in Criticism, 1965.
L. D. Lerner 'The Miltonic Simile', BC 4 (1954) 297-308.
Christopher Ricks Milton's Grand Style, 1963, ch. 4.
R. I. S. Jones 'Eighteenth Century Criticism of the Miltonic Simile' MQ (1976)
113-19.
J. Whaler 'The Miltonic Simile', PMLA 46 (1931) 1034-74.
'Grammatical Nexus of the Miltonic Simile', JEGP 33
(1931) 327-34.
'Compounding and Distribution of Similes in PL', MP 28 (1931) 313-27.
K. Widmer 'The Iconography of Renunciation', ELH 25 (1958) 258-69.
B.A. Wright Milton's Paradise Lost, 1962, cbs. 4-5.
Specific Similes
R. E. Fortin 'The Climactic Smiles of Paradise Regained', MQ 7 (1973) 39-43.
Jonathan Goldberg 'Virga Iesse: Analogy, Typology, and Anagogy in a Miltonic
Simile', MS 5 (1973) 177-90.
John Gorecki 'Milton's Similitudes for Satan' MQ 10 (1976) 101-108.
Jun Harada 'A Case Study of Milton's Busiris Simile' SEL 50 (1974) 229-43.
Davis P. Harding 'Milton's Bee-Simile' JEGP 60 (1961) 664-9.
James P. Holoka 'Thick as Autumnal Leaves' MQ 10 (1976) 78-83.
John T. Shawcroas 'The Simile of Satan as a Comet' MQ 6 (1972) 5.
Arnold Stein 'Eloquence as Power: Another Dimension of the Hercules Simile in
Paradise Regained' MQ 4 (1970) 22-3.
Kathleen M.Swaim 'Hercules, Antaeus, and Prometheus' SEL 18 (1978) 137-53.
J. Whaler 'Animal Simile in PL' PMLA 47 (1932) 534-53
Classical Allusions
N. Aryanpur 'PL and the Odyssey' TSLL 9 (1967)
F. Blessington PL and the Classical ED1C, 1979
L.L. Brodwin 'Milton and the Renaissance Circe' MS 6 (1974)
Douglas Bush 'Ironic and Ambiguous Allusion in PL' JEGP 60 (1961)
'Notes on Milton's Classical Mythology' SP 28 (1931)
'Virgil and Milton' Classical Journal 47 (1952)
N. Collett 'Milton's Classical Allusions' PMLA 85 (1970)
W. Connely 'Imprints of the Aeneid on PL' CJ 18 (1923)
M. Di Cesare 'PL and Epic Tradition' MS 1 (1969)
W.E. Farrison 'The Classical Allusions in PL' English Journal 22
(1933)
Neil Forsythe 'Having Done All to Stand: Biblical and Classical
Allusion in PR' MS 21 (1985) 199-214
K.W. Grandsen 'PL and the Aeneid' EC 17 (1967)
D.P. Harding The Club of Hercules, 1962
E.L. Herbst 'Classical Mythology in PL' Classical Philology 29
(1934)
M. Mueller 'PL and the Iliad' CLS 6 (1969)
J. Norton-Smith 'Virgil's Influence on M's Similes' in R. A. Cardwell
Virgil in a Cultural Tradition, 1986
Charles G. Osgood Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems, 1900
J.Richardson 'Virgil and Milton once again' Comparative Literature 14 (1962)
W.E. H. Rudat 'Milton's Dido and Aeneas: the Fall in PL and the Virgilian Tradition'
Classical and Modern Literature 2 (1981) 33-46
P.Vicari 'The Triumph of Art: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton' in John Warden
Orpheus: The Metamorphoses of a Myth, 1982
Allusions to Ovid
Judith Browning 'Sin, Eve, and Circe: PL and the Ovidian Circe Tradition' MS
26 (1991) 135-57
Richard DuRocher Milton and Ovid, 1985
John K. Hale 'Milton Playing with Ovid' MS 25 (1989) 3-19
Davis P. Harding Milton and the Renaissance Ovid, 1946
K.J. Knoespel 'The Limits of Allegory: Textual Expansion of Narcissus in PL'
MS 22 (1986) 79-99
B.Y.Langford 'Some Great Change: Aspects of Ovidian Metamorphosis in the Poetry
of Spenser and Milton' Diss Abs Int 42 (1982)
C. Martindale 'Paradise Metamorphosed: Ovid in Milton' Comparative
Literature 37 (1985) 301-33
Jeanne A. Roberts 'Anxiety and Influence: Milton, Ovid, and Shakespeare' South
Atlantic Review 53 (1988) 59-75
Biblical Allusions
J.H. Sims The Bible in Milton's Epics, 1962
H.F. Fletcher The Use of the Bible in Milton's Prose, 1929
George N. Conklin Biblical Criticism and Heresy in Milton, 1949
George Potter 'Milton's Bibles' NQ 3 (1911)
Arnold Williams The Common Expositor, 1948
Theology
J. C. Boswell 'Milton and Prevenient Grace', SEL 7 (1967) 83-94
Gordon Campbell, 'The Mortalist Heresy in Paradise Lost' MQ 13 (1979) 33-36
C. B. Christopher Milton and the Science of the Saints, 1982
George N. Conklin Biblical Criticism and Heresy in Milton, 1949.
Dennis Danielson Milton's Good God, 1982
'Milton's Arminianism and Paradise Lost' MS 12 (1978)
47-73
William Empson Milton's God, 1962.
J. Martin Evans Paradise Lost and the Genesis Tradition, 1968.
Peter A. Fiore Milton and Augustine, 1981
Stanley Fish Surprised by Sin, 1967
Michael Fixler Milton and the Kingdoms of God, 1964
Roland N. Frye God, Man, and Satan, 1960.
William B. Hunter Bright Essence: Studies in Milton's Theology, 1971.
Sister N. Joseph Orthodoxy in Paradise Lost, 1954.
Maurice Kelley This Great Argument, 1941.
William Kerrigan 'The Heretical Milton: From Assumption to Mortalism' ELR 5
(1975) 125-66
Timothy O'Keefe Milton and the Pauline Tradition, 1982
C. A. Patrides Milton and the Christian Tradition, 1966.
Malcolm M. Ross Poetry and Dogma, 1954.
John Rumrich Milton and Heresy, 1998
Arthur Sewell A Study of Milton's Christian Doctrine, 1939.
Robert West Milton and the Angels, 1955
Arnold Williams The Common Expositor, 1948
George Williamson 'Milton and the Mortalist Heresy' SP 32 ((1935) 553-79
Doctrine of the Fall
J.S. Diekhoff 'Eve, the Devil, and Areopagitica' MLQ 5 (1944) 429-34
Thomas Blackburn 'Uncloistered Virtue' MS xx (l9xx) 119-35
Lawrence Hyman 'Dogma and Poetry in Paradise Lost IX-X' in The Quarrel Within,
1972
C. S. Lewis A Preface to Paradise Lost, 1942
H. V. S. Ogden 'The Crisis of Paradise Lost Reconsidered' PQ 36 (1957) 1-19
W. N. W. Tillyard 'The Crisis of Paradise Lost' in Studies in Milton, 1951
A. J. A. Waldock 'The Fall' in Paradise Lost and its Critics
Felix Culpa
Millicent Bell 'The Fallacy of the Fall in Paradise Lost', PMLA 68 (1953) 863-83,
PMLA 70 (1955) 1187-97.
Dennis Danielson 'The Unfortunate FaIT' in Milton's Good God, 1982.
A. 0. Lovejoy 'Milton and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall' ELH 4 (1937) 161-79.
William B. Madsen 'The Fortunate Fall in PL', MLN 74 (1959) 103-105.
W. H. Marshall 'PL, Felix Culpa, and the Problem of Structure', MLN 76 (1961)
15-20.
Earl Miner 'Felix Culpa in Paradise Lost', PQ 47 (1968).
V.Mollenkott 'Milton's Rejection of the Fortunate Fall', NQ (1972).
C.A. Patrides 'Adams Happy Fault and Seventeenth Century Apologetics',Franciscan
Studies 23 (1963) 238-43.
Dick Taylor 'Milton and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall Once More', Tulane
Studies in English 9 (1959) 35-52.
John C. Ulreich 'A Paradise Within: the Fortunate Fall in PL' Journal of the
history of Ideas 32 (1971) 351-66
Herbert Weisinger Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall, 1953
Typology
David Berkeley Inwrought with Figures Dim, 1974
W.B. Madsen From Shadowy Types to Truth, 1968
Hugh R. MacCallum 'Milton and Figurative Interpretation of the Bible', UTQ 31
(1962) 397-415
John C. Ulreich 'The Typological Structure of Milton's Imagery', MS 5
1973) 67-85
J.P. Rosenblatt 'The Mosaic Voice in PL' MS 7 (1975) 207-32
Politics
David Armitage 'John Milton: Poet Against Empire' in David Armitage, Milton
and Republicanism, 1990
J. Martin Evans Milton's Imperial Epic: Paradise Lost and the
Discourse of Colonialism, 1996
Barbara Lewalski 'Paradise Lost and MIlton's Politics' MS 38 (2000) 141-68
Paul Stevens 'Paradise Lost and the Colonial Imperative' MS 34
(1996) 3-21
Barbara Lewalski 'Paradise Lost and Milton's Politics'MS 38 (2000)
141-69
Mary Ann Radzinowicz 'The Politics of Paradise Lost' in Kevin Sharpe and Steven
Zwicker, The Politics of Discourse, 1987
Blair Worden 'Milton's Republicanism and the Tyranny of Heaven' in G. Buck,
Q. Skinner et al, Machiavelli and Republicanism, 1990
Satan
Joan Bennett 'God, Satan, and King Charles' PMLA 102 (1987) 441-57
F.C. Blessington 'Pellax Ulysses' in Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic, 1979
William Empson 'Satan' in Milton's God, 1961
J.M. Evans 'Hellish Hate and Heavenly Love' in Paradise Lost and the Genesis
Tradition, 1968
Helen Gardner 'Satan and the Theme of Damnation in Elizabethan Tragedy' in A.
Barker, Milton, Modern Essays in Criticism, 1965
A.H.Gilbert 'The Theological Basis of Satan's Rebellion' MP 40 (1942)
Robert Hodge 'Satan and the Revolution of the Saints' Literature: History 7
(1978) 20-33
C. S. Lewis 'Satan' in A Preface to Paradise Lost, 1942
S. Musgrove 'Is the Devil an Ass' RES 21 (1945)
John Peter 'Satan and his Angels' in A Critique of Paradise Lost, 1960
B. Rajan 'The Problem of Satan' in Paradise Lost and the 17th C. Reader, 1947
William Riggs 'The Poet and Satan in Paradise Lost' MS 2 )1070) 59
-82
John M. Steadman 'The Idea of Satan as the Hero of Paradise Lost' Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society 120 (1976) 253-94
E.E. Stoll 'Give the Devil his Due' RES 20 (1944)
J. H. Summers 'Satan Sin and Death' in The Muse's Method,1962
A.J.A. Waldock 'Satan and the Technique of Degradation' in Paraduse Lost and
Its Critics, 1947
R.J.Z.Werblowsky Satan and Prometheus, 1952
A. Williams 'The Motivation of Satan's Rebellion in Paradise
Lost'
God and His Angels
F. C. Blessington 'Above the Olympian Mount' in PL and the Classical Epic,
1979
J.B. Broadbent 'Heaven' in Some Graver Subject, 1958
S.C. Chew The Virtues Reconciled, 1947
William Empson 'Heaven' in Milton's God, 1961
Gary Hamilton 'Milton's Defensive God: A Reappraisal' SP 69(1972) 87-100
John Peter 'God and his Angels' in A Critique of PL, 1960
Stella Revard 'Satan's Envy of the Kingship of the Son' MP 70 (1973)
William Riggs 'The Poet and Satan in Paradise Lost' MS 2 (1970) 59-82
Irene Samuel 'The Dialogue in Heaven' PMLA 72 (1957)
Hope Traver The Four Daughters of God, 1907
Robert West Milton and the Angels, 1955
Adam and Eve
Christine Froula 'When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy' Critical
Inquiry, 10 (1983) 321-476
'Pechter's Spectre: Milton's Bogey Writ Small, or Why is He Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?' Critical Enquiry 11 (1984) 17 1-8
Philip J. Gallagher 'Milton's Bogey' PMLA 94 (1979) 319-21
'Creation and Genesis in PL' MS 20 (1984) 163-204
A. H. Gilbert 'Milton on the Position of Women', MLR 15 (1920) 7-27, 240-64
Sandra H. Gilbert 'Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers', PMLA 93 (1978) 368
-82
Anna K. Juhnke 'Remnants of Misogyny in Paradise Lost' MQ 22 (1988)
50-57
Lillian Jurika Milton's Concept of Woman (Stanford Ph.D), 1962
Marcia Landy 'A Free and Open Encounter' : Milton and the Modern Reader' MS
9 (1976) 3-36
'Kinship and the Role of Women in PL', MS 4 (1972) 3-18
Barbara Lewalski 'Milton on Women: Yet Once More', MS 6 (l9~4) 3-20
Diane K. McColley Milton's Eve, 1974
'Milton and the Sexes' in Dennis Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton,
Cambridge, 1989
Dorothy D. Miller 'Eve', JEGP 61 (1962) 542-7
V. R. Mollenkott 'Milton and Women's Liberation', MQ 7 (1973) 99-103
Mary Nyquist 'Gynesis, Genesis, Exegesis, and the Formation of Milton's Eve'
in Marjorie Garber, Cannibals, Witches and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance,
1987
'Reading the Fall: Discourse and Drama in PL' ELR 14(1984) 207-
W.R. Parker 'Misogyny in Milton's Samson Agonistes', PQ 16 (1937)
'Eve, Evening and the Labor of Reading in PL' English Literary Renaissance 9
(1978) 319-42
Edward Pechter 'When Pechter Readers Froula Pretending She's Eve Reading Milton'
Critical Inquiry 11 (1984) 163-70
Stella Revard 'Eve and the Doctrine of Responsibility in PL', PMLA 88 1973)
69-78
William Shullenberger 'Wrestling with the Angel: Paradise Lost and Feminist
Criticism' MQ 20 (1986) 69-84
Paul N. Siegel 'Milton and the Humanist Attitude Toward Women', Journal of the
History of Ideas 11 (1950) 42-53
Julia Walker Milton and the Idea of Woman, 1988
Joan M. Webber 'The Politics of Poetry: Feminism and Paradise Lost', MS 14 (1980)
3-24
Joseph Wittreich Feminist Milton, 1987
Separation
Diane Benet 'Abdiel and the Son in the Separation Scene' Milton Studies 18
(1983) 129-43
Joan S. Bennett 'Milton's Antinomianism and the Separation Scene in PL' in Reviving
Liberty, 1989, pp. 94-118 or PMLA 98 (1983) 388-404
Fredson Bowers 'Adam and Eve and the Fall. in PL', PMLA 84 (1969)
J. Martin Evans 'Mortals' Chiefest Enemy' MS 20 (1984) 111-126
Marilyn R.Farwell 'Eve, the Separation Scene, and the Renaissance Idea of Androgyny',
MS 16 (1982) 3-20
A. Low 'The Parting in the Garden in PL', PQ 47 (1968)
Diane K. McColley 'Free Will and Obedience in the Separation Scene in PL', SEL
12 (1972) 103-20
Stella Revard 'Eve and the Doctrine of Responsibility in PL' PMLA 88 (1973)
69-78
Elaine B. Safer ''Sufficient to Have Stood': Eve's Responsibility in Book IX',
MQ 6 (1972) 10-14
E.M.W. Tillyard 'The Crisis in PL', Studies in Milton, 1951
Milton and Marriage
David Aers et al 'Rational Burning' : Milton on Sex and Marriage', MS 13 (1979)
3-33
Martin Fido 'Milton on Love', The Oxford Review 3 (1966) 47-66
Cheryl H. Fresch ''And Brought Her Unto the Man' : The Wedding in PL' MS 16
(1982) 21-33
John C. Halkett Milton and the Idea of Matrimony, 1970
Edward LeComte Milton and Sex, 1978
C.S. Lewis 'Adam and Eve', A Preface to PL, 1942
F.Pezenik 'Fit Help: The Egalitarian Marriage in PL' Mosaic 17.1 (1984) 29-48
J.H. Summers The Two Great Sexes in The Muse's. Method, 1962
James Turner One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of
Milton, 1987
Gladys J. Willis The Penalty of Eve: John Milton and Divorce, 1984
The Garden of Eden
Hannah D. Demaray 'Milton's Perfect Paradise and the Landscapes of Italy',
MQ 112 8 (1974) 33-41
Joseph Duncan Milton's Earthly Paradise, 1972
M.B. Garber 'Fallen Landscape: the Art of Milton and Poussin', ELR 5(1975) 96-124
John D. Hunt 'Milton and the Making of the English Landscape Garden',MS 15 (1981)
81-105
John R. Knott Milton's Pastoral Vision, 1971
G.S. Koehler 'Milton and the Art of Landscape', MS 8 (1975) 3-40
C.F. Otten ''My Native Element': Milton's Paradise and English
Gardens' MS 5 (1973) 249-67
Ideal Gardens
John Armstrong The Paradise Myth, 1969
Terry Comito The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance, 1978
A.B. Giamatti The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic., 1966
Edward Hyams The English Garden, 1964
Hugh Richmond Renaissançe_Landscapes: English Lyrics in a European
Tradition, 1973
J.B. Spencer Heroic Nature: Ideal Landscape in English Poetry from Marvell to
Dryden, 1973
Stanley Stewart The Enclosed Garden, 1966
Roy Strong The Renaissance Garden in England, 1979
PARADISE REGAINED
The Genre
Ralph Condee, 'Milton's Dialogue with Epic: Paradise Regained and the Tradition'
Yale Review 59 (1970) 357-75
Stuart Curran, 'Paradise Lost: Implications of Epic' MS 17 (1983) 209-24
Donald L. Guss 'A Brief Epic: Paradise Regained SP 68 (1971) 223-43
The Hero
Alan Fisher 'Why is Paradise Regained so Cold? MS 14 (1980) 195-217
Merritt Y. Hughes, 'The Christ of Paradise Regained and the Renaissance Heroic
Tradition' SP 35 (1938) 254-77
Richard D. Jordan 'Paradise Regained and the Second Adam' MS 9 (1976) 261-75
Laura L. Knoppers 'Paradise Regained and the Politics of Martyrdom' MP 90 (1992)
200-219
Thomas Langford, 'The Nature of Christ in Paradise Regained' MQ 16 (1982) 63-67
W. W. Robson, 'The Better Fortitude' in Frank Kermode, The Living Milton, Routledge,
1960, pp. 124-37
The Temptations
Gregory W. Bredbeck 'Milton's Ganymede: Negotiations of Homoerotic Tradition
in Paradise Regained' PMLA 106 (1991) 262-76
Georgia B. Christopher 'The Secret Agent in Paradise Regained' MLQ 41 (1980)
131-51
Barbara Lewalski, 'Theme and Structure in Paradise Regained' SP 57 (1960) 186-220
James R. McAdams 'The Pattern of Temptation in Paradise Regained' MS 4 (1972)
177-93
Ashraf. H. A. Rushdy ''In Dubious Battle': Skepticism and Fideism in Paradise
Regained' HLQ 53 (1990) 95-118
Claude J. Summers, 'The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained'
Journal of Homosexuality 33 (1997) 45-69
A. S. P. Woodhouse, 'Theme and Pattern in Paradise Regained' UTQ 25 (1956) 167-82
General Discussions
Northrop Frye 'The Typology of Paradise Regained', MP 53 (1956)
227-38
Barbara Lewalski 'The Uses of Typology' in Milton's Brief Epic, 1966
Robert A. Stein 'The Sources and Implications of the Jobean Analogies in Paradise
Regained' Anglia 88 (1970) 323-33
SAMSON AGONISTES
Hellenic and Hebraic Elements
R. C. Jebb, 'Samson Agonistes and the Hellenic Drama' Proceedings of the British
Academy 3 (1907-8) 341-8
W. R. Parker 'The Greek Spirit in Milton's Samson Agonistes E&S 20 (1934)
21-44
Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy, 1937
Michael Lieb, ''Our Living Dread': The God of Samson Agonistes' MS 33 (1996)
3-25
S. S. Stollman 'Milton's Samson and the Jewish Tradition', MS 3 (1971) 185 -200
'Milton's Understanding of the Hebraic in Samson Agonistes' SP 69 (1972) 334-47
Chauncey B. Tinker 'Samson Agonistes' in Cleanth Brooks (ed), Tragic Themes
in Western Literature, New Haven, 1955, pp. 59-76
Cathartic Theories
G.Christopher 'Homeopathic Physic and Natural Renovation in SA', ELH 37 (1970)
361-73
S.H. Hawkins 'Samson's Catharsis' MS 2 (1970) 211-30
Martin Mueller 'Sixteenth Century Italian Criticism and Milton's Theory of Catharsis',
SEL 6 (1966) 139-50
'Pathos and Katharsis in SA', ELH 31 (1964)
M. A. Radzinowicz 'Medicinable Tragedy: The Structure of SA and
Seventeenth Century Pathology' in M. Axton and R. Williams English Drama, 1977
P.R. Sellin 'Sources of Milton's Catharsis: A Reconsideration', JEGP 60 (1961)
712-30
R.B. Waddington 'Melancholy Against Melancholy' in J. A. Wittreich Calm of Mind,
1971
Religious Readings
Ann Gossman, 'Milton's Samson as the Tragic Hero Purified by Trial' JEGP 61
(1962) 528-41
F. N. Krouse Milton's Samson and the Christian Tradition, 1949
Lynn V. Sadler 'Typological Imagery in SA', ELH 37 (1970) 195-210
Irene Samuel 'Samson Agonistes as Tragedy' in Joseph A. Wittreich, Calm of Mind,
1971, pp. 235-57
G.A.Wilkes, 'The Interpretation of Samson Agonistes' Huntington Library Quarterly
26 (1963): 363-79
Political Readings
Sharon Achinstein, 'Samson Agonistes and the Drama of Dissent' MS 33 (1996)
133-58
Jackie DiSalvo 'The Lords Battells: SA and the Puritan Revolution', MS 4 (1972)
39-52
John Guillory 'Samson Agonistes in its historical moment' in Nyquist and Ferguson,
Be-membering Milton, pp.148-76
Christopher Hill, 'Samson Agonistes Again' Literature and History 1 (1990) 24-39
Milton and the English Revolution, 1972
Mary A. N. Radzinowicz, 'Samson Agonistes and Milton the Politician in
Defeat' PQ 44 (1965) 454-71
Towards Samson Agonistes, 1978
General Discussions
Stanley Fish 'Question and Answer in SA', Critical Quarterly 9 (1969) 237-64
'Spectacle and Evidence in SA' Critical Inquiry 15 (1989) 556-86
N. E. Grenander 'Samson's Middle: Aristotle and Dr Johnson', UTQ 24
(1955) 377-89
W. Kerrigan The Prophetic Milton, 1974
'The Irrational Coherence of Samson Agonistes' MS 22
(1986) 217-32
W. Kirkconnell That Invincible Samson, 1964
Anthony Low The Blaze of Noon: A Reading of 'Samson Agonistes', 1974
Virginia R. Mollenkott 'Relativism in Samson Agonistes' SP 67 (1970) 89-102
W. R. Parker, 'The Date of Samson Agonistes' PQ 28 (1949) 145-66
Murray Roston Biblical Drama in England, 1968
Joseph Wittreich Interpreting Samson Agonistes, 1986
On Stage
Dayton Haskin 'Samson Agonistes on the Stage at Yale' MQ 19 (1985) 48-53
William P. Shaw, 'Producing Samson Agonistes' MQ 13 (1979) 69-79