Drawing on the extraordinary wealth of scholarly and critical material on John Milton's life, works and influence, this collection of reprinted articles brings together the most illuminating scholarship that has been written about Milton.

THE EARLY YEARS Barker, Arthur. 'Milton's Schoolmasters.' Modern Language Review 32 (1937). Miller, Leo. 'Milton's Clash with Chappell: A Suggested Reconstruction.' Milton Quarterly 14 (1980). Hale, John K. 'Milton Plays the Fool: The Christ's College Salting 1628.' Classical and Modern Literature 20 (2000). Rumrich, John. 'The Erotic Milton.' Texas Studies in Language and Literature 41 (1999). Hill, John Spencer. 'Poet-Priest: Vocational Tension in Milton's Early Development.' Milton Studies 8 (1975). Hanford, James Holly. 'Milton in Italy.' Annuale Mediaevale 5 (1964). Friedman, Donald. 'Galileo and the Art of Seeing.' In Milton in Italy: Contexts, Images, Contradiction, edited by Mario A. Di Cesare (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991). THE MATURE YEARS Miller, Leo. 'John Milton's 'Lost' Sonnet to Mary Powell.' Milton Quarterly 25 (1990). Sirluck, Ernest. 'Milton's Idle Right Hand.' Journal of English and German Philology 60 (1961). Corns, Thomas. 'Milton's Quest for Respectability.' Modern Language Research 77 (1982). Woolrych, Austin. 'Milton and Cromwell: 'A Short but Scandalous Night of Interruption'.' In Achievements of the Left Hand, edited by Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974). Hughes, Merritt Y. 'Milton as a Revolutionary.' English Literary History 10 (1943). Hunter, William B. 'Some Speculations on the Nature of Milton's Blindness.' Journal of the History of Medicine 17 (1962). Baruch, Franklin R. 'Milton's Blindness: The Conscious and Unconscious Patterns of Autobiography.' English Literary History 42 (1975). Davies, Godfrey. 'Milton in 1660.' Huntington Library Quarterly 18 (1955). Kermode, Frank. 'Milton in Old Age.' Southern Review 11 (1975). MILTON'S LITERARY AFTERLIFE Frank, Marcia. 'Staging Criticism, Staging Milton: John Dryden's The State of Innocence.' The Eighteenth Century 34 (1993). Bostich, June. 'Miltonic Influence in 'The Rape of the Lock'.' Enlightenment Essays 4 (1973). Wittreich, Joseph A. 'The Illustrious Dead: Milton's Legacy and Romantic Prophecy.' Milton and the Romantics 4 (1980). Grundy, Joan. 'Hardy and Milton.' Thomas Hardy Annual 3 (1985). Jenkins, Hugh. 'Jefferson (Re)Reading Milton.' Milton Quarterly 32 (1998). Herron, Carolivia. 'Milton and Afro-American Literature.' In Re-Membering Milton, edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret Ferguson (New York: Methuen, 1987).