Dec 16, 2009

Paradise Lost | Bibliography and Further Reading

Adams, Robert M. and George M. Logan, eds. ''The Seventeenth Century'' in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed., Vol. I, Norton, 1993.
Provides a good introduction to both the period and the poem, situating Paradise Lost in the context of Milton's life and works, the seventeenth century as a whole, and the epic tradition.

Berry, Boyd M., Process of Speech: Puritan Religious Writings and Paradise Lost, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
Discusses Paradise Lost in the context of the...