1608-1674

Explores the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.

Describes how C.S. Lewis's Narnia series was influenced by Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen" and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" focusing on the depiction of evil, female characters, symbolic landscapes and settings, and spiritual concepts.

A guide to reading "Paradise Lost" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample test, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

The life of the well-known English poet and educator set against the social life and historic events of the seventeenth century.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of seven poems by seventeenth-century poet John Milton, and includes biographical and bibliographical information.