"This companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, "Paradise Lost". The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowl…
"This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of…
This major interdisciplinary study re-examines the political thought of John Milton, one of the celebrated proponents of the 'Commonwealth and Free State' that was established in England in the mid-seventeenth century. Walker shows that in his epic poem, Paradise Lost (1667), Mi…
This new reading of Milton's epic poem demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence to the individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. It also shows how Milton radically revised…
Polytheism and "truest poesie"--The discourse of monotheism : occult monotheism and the abstract godhead -- God and Genesis 18 in Paradise lost -- The war in heaven and deism -- The discourse of monotheism : Socinianism and deism -- The Son after the Trinity -- Revelation and Sa…