Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by th

The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver C

These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within whi