Concise Companion to Milton

Angelica Duran is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. A Milton specialist, she is on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly and is currently working on two book-length projects entitled Milton among Spaniards and Milton in Hispanoamerica. Her book on The Age of Milton and The Scientific Revolution is forthcoming in 2007.

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Angelica DuranPart I Surveys1 A Reading of His "left hand": Milton's Prose 7Robert Thomas Fallon2 "Shedding sweet influence": The Legacy of John Milton's Works 25John T. Shawcross3 "The world all before [us]": More than Three Hundred Years of Criticism 43Roy FlannaganPart II Textual Sites4 First and Last Fruits of Education: The Companion Poems, Epistola, and Educational Prose Works 61Angelica Duran5 Milton's Heroic Sonnets 78Annabel Patterson6 The Lives of Lycidas 95Paul Alpers7 A Mask: Tradition and Innovation 111Katsuhiro Engetsu8 The Bible, Religion, and Spirituality in Paradise Lost 128Achsah Guibbory9 Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Paradise 144Karen L. Edwards10 The Ecology of Paradise Lost 161Juliet Lucy Cummins11 The Messianic Vision of Paradise Regained 178David Gay12 The Nightmare of History: Samson Agonistes 197Louis SchwartzPart III Reference PointsSelect Chronology: "Speak of things at hand/ Useful" 217Edward JonesSelect Bibliography: "Much arguing, much writing, many opinions" 235J. Martin EvansIndex 270