A reader's guide to John Milton
By: Marjorie Hope Nicolson.
Edition: 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Series: Reader's guide series; Reader's guide series (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Syracuse N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: Marjorie Hope Nicolson - one of the world's foremost authorities on Milton - examines Milton's work beginning with the juvenalia, the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycidas." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell.

Examining the sonnets he composed during this time, she also scrutinizes the many prose-pamphlets and tracts that Milton said he "wrote with his left hand." Finally, Nicolson looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Samson Agonistes, Milton's poetic "closet drama."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-380) and index.
Originally published: John Milton. New York : Farrar, Straus, [1963].