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Milton, John

Archinstein. Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Study of his politics in his work.

Barker, Arthur E., ed. Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. London: Longman, 1965. Good anthology of criticism covering Milton's entire canon.

Brown, Cedric L. John Milton: A Literary Life. London: Macmillan, 1995. Useful study of Milton's life and its effect on his works.

Burnett, Archie. Milton's Style. London: Longman, 1981. Meticulous linguistic analysis of the minor poems, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, in the context of recent criticism.

Carey, John. Milton. London: Evans Bros, 1969. Stimulating and unusual approach to Milton.

Daiches, David. Milton. A Study of his Poetry. London: Hutchinson, 1957. Straightforward information and basic interpretation.

Danielson, Dennis, ed. Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Biographical and critical collection of 18 essays covering a wide range from Milton's philosophies to his politics.

Dzelzainis, Martin, ed. Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Translated from Latin by C. Gruzelier.

Hanford, John. A Milton Handbook. New York: F. S. Crofts, 1970. Best brief introduction. Originally published in 1926.

Hill, Christopher. Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries. London: Heinemann, 1984. The effect of the Restoration and the failure of their revolutionary ideals on Milton and his contemporaries.

Hunter, W. B., ed. Milton Encyclopedia. London and Toronto: Bucknell University Press, 1978-1984. An excellent reference source on any aspect of Milton, from his works to works on him.

Loewenstein. Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Martz, Louis L. Poet of Exile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. Imaginative interpretation of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonisites as Milton's three comments on his life (blindness, political defeat, strategies for coping).

Orgel, Stephen, and Goldberg, Jonathan. John Milton. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996.

Parker, William Riley. Milton: A Biographical Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Originally Milton: A Biography. Academic standard, a monumental, comprehensive study.

Rumrich, John P. Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Shawcross, J., ed. Milton: the Critical Heritage 1628-1731. London: Routledge, 1970. Interesting collection of critics over the period.

Tillyard, E. M. W. Milton. London: Chatto and Windus, Useful coverage of Milton's life and work, analysing his influences and intentions.