A Companion to Milton

A COMPANION TO MILTON......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and a Note on Editions Used......Page 13
The Contributors......Page 14
PART I:  The Cultural Context......Page 19
1 Genre......Page 21
2  The Classical Literary Tradition......Page 40
3  Milton on the Bible......Page 55
4  Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism......Page 73
5 Milton and English Poetry......Page 90
6  Milton’s English......Page 108
PART II:  Politics and Religion......Page 125
7  The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period......Page 127
8  Milton and Puritanism......Page 142
9  Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy......Page 159
10 Milton and Ecology......Page 175
11 The English and Other Peoples......Page 192
12 The Literature of Controversy......Page 209
PART III:  Texts......Page 229
The Early Poetry......Page 231
13 ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’, ‘Upon the Circumcision’ and ‘The Passion’......Page 233
14  John Milton’s Comus......Page 250
15 ‘Lycidas’......Page 264
The Prose......Page 279
16 Early Political Prose......Page 281
17 Milton, Marriage and Divorce......Page 297
18 Republicanism......Page 312
19 Late Political Prose......Page 327
The Late Poetry......Page 345
20 Paradise Lost in Intellectual History......Page 347
21 The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost......Page 366
22 Obedience and Autonomy in Paradise Lost......Page 381
23 Paradise Lost and the Multiplicity of Time......Page 398
24 Self-Contradicting Puns in Paradise Lost......Page 411
25 Samson Agonistes......Page 429
26 Paradise Regained......Page 447
PART IV:  Influences and Reputation......Page 463
27 Reading Milton, 1674–1800......Page 465
28 Milton: The Romantics and After......Page 481
PART V:  Biography......Page 499
29 The Life Records......Page 501
Consolidated Bibliography......Page 517
General Index......Page 539