Milton in context

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biography / Annabel Patterson -- Composition process / Juliet Lucy -- Early lives / Edward Jones -- Letters, verse letters, and gift-texts / Cedric C. Brown -- Milton on himself / Stephen M. Fallon -- Poetic tradition, dramatic / Ann Baynes Coiro -- Poetic tradition, epic / Anthony Welch -- Poetic tradition, pastoral / Barbara K. Lewalski -- Prose style / Walter S.H. Lim -- Verse and rhyme / John Creaser -- Critical responses, early / John Rumrich -- Critical responses, 1825-1970 / P.J. Klemp -- Critical responses, recent / J. Martin Evans -- Later publishing history / John T. Shawcross -- Translations / Christophe Tournu -- Visual arts / Wendy Furman-Adams -- Astronomy / Dennis Danielson -- The book trade / Stephen B. Dobranski -- The Caroline court / Nicholas McDowell -- Catholicism / Joan S. Bennett -- The civil wars / James Loxley -- Classical literature and learning / Stella P. Revard -- Education / Gregory Chaplin -- The English Church / Neil Forsyth -- The Interregnum / David Loewenstein -- Italy / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- Law / Lynne Greenberg -- Literary contemporaries / Albert C. Labriola -- Logic / Phillip J. Donnelly -- London / Ian W. Archer -- Manuscript transmission / Randall Ingram -- Marriage and divorce / Shigeo Suzuki -- Music / Diane McColley -- The natural world / Karen L. Edwards -- The New World / Amy Boesky -- Pamphlet wars / N.H. Keeble -- Philosophy / Pitt Harding -- Reading practices / Elizabeth Sauer -- The Restoration / Joad Raymond -- Theology / William Poole.