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.

GENERAL Fish, Stanley. 'The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost.' Critical Quarterly 3 (1965). Rumrich, John. 'Uninventing Milton.' Modern Philology 87 (1990). GENRE AND STYLE Rajan, Balachandra. 'Paradise Lost: The Uncertain Epic.' Milton Studies 17 (1983). Eliot, T. S. 'A Note on the Verse of John Milton.' English Studies 21 (1936). Ricks, Christopher. 'The Grand Style.' In Milton's Grand Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963). Gregerson, Linda. 'The Limbs of Truth: Milton's Use of Similes in Paradise Lost.' Milton Studies 14 (1980). Bush, Douglas. 'Ironic and Ambiguous Allusions in Paradise Lost.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 60 (1961). THEOLOGY Danielson, Dennis. 'Milton's Arminianism and Paradise Lost.' Milton Studies 12 (1978). Rumrich, John P. 'Milton's Arianism: Why It Matters.' In Milton and Heresy, edited by John P. Rumrich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Bell, Millicent. 'The Fallacy of the Fall in Paradise Lost.' PMLA 68 (1953). Mollenkott, Virginia. 'Milton's Rejection of the Fortunate Fall.' Milton Quarterly 6 (1972). POLITICS Stevens, Paul. 'Paradise Lost and the Colonial Imperative.' Milton Studies 34 (1996). Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. 'Paradise Lost and Milton's Politics.' Milton Studies 38 (2000). Froula, Christine. 'When Eve Reads Milton: Undoing the Canonical Economy.' Critical Inquiry 10 (1983). Pechter, Edward. 'When Pechter Reads Froula Pretending She's Eve Reading Milton.' Critical Inquiry 11 (1984). CHARACTERS Rajan, Balachandra. 'The Problem of Satan.' In Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967). Riggs, William G. 'The Poet and Satan in Paradise Lost.' Milton Studies 2 (1970). Fallon, Stephen M. 'Milton's Sin and Death: the Ontology of Allegory in Paradise Lost.' English Language Research 17 (1987). Bennett, Joan S. 'God, Satan, and King Charles.' PMLA 102 (1987). Blackburn, Thomas. 'Uncloister'd Virtue: Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise.' Milton Studies 11 (1971).