Milton's Sonnets
Milton's Sonnets

Author: Edward Jones

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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John Milton
John Milton

Author: Roy Flannagan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0470692871

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In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductions to Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The Milton Quarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical account of a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry and prose. Puts John Milton under the microscope, using the still-evolving critical perspectives of the last fifty years. Looks at Milton’s life, and the cultural background to his work, as well as examining his writing. Considers how and why Milton’s work has endured the centuries to educate, entertain and intrigue so many generations of readers. Ideal for the reader falling in love with Milton’s poetry and prose, who longs to know more about what people think about the poetry, the man or the historical context.

Johnson's Milton
Johnson's Milton

Author: Christine Rees

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 113948592X

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Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.