Mary R. Bowman reviews Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature, by Kenneth Borris.

Jim Daems reviews Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire, by Lana Cable.

William Walker reviews Milton and Heresy, Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich, eds.

Jim Daems reviews Sea-Mark: The Metaphorical Voyage, Spenser to Milton, by Philip Edwards.

Robert Grant Williams reviews Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, by Katherine Eggert.

William Walker reviews Stanley Fish, How Milton Works, by Stanley Fish.

Jim Daems reviews The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton, by Walter S.H. Lim.

William Walker reviews Milton and the Terms of Liberty, by Graham Parry and Joad Raymond, eds.

Amdrew McRae reviews Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England, by Kristen Poole.

Andrew McRae reviews The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton, by John Rogers.

Paul Dyck reviews of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton, by Michael Schoenfeldt.

Philip Edward Phillips reviews Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler, by Alvin Snider.

Bryan N.S. Gooch reviews Pastoral Process[:] Spenser, Marvell, Milton, by Susan Snyder.

John S. Pendergast reviews Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition, by Patrick J. Cook; Mapping the Faerie Queene, by Wayne Erickson.

A brief biographical sketch.

By Michael Lieb, University of Illinois at Chicago.

A critical introduction to Milton's major poems.

Explicates the relation between church and state in Milton's writings, arguing for the gradual loss of political innocence.

A series of essays on Milton.

Culture and history during the 1640s, and background on Milton in Italy.

Etext version of the book, "Study of Divine Vocation in Milton's Poetry and Prose," by John Spencer Hill.

Synopsis of the Jean Francis article, which reconstructs the holdings of the Kedermister Library in Langley Marish. The library is believed to have been used by Milton.

From the Fourth International Milton Symposium. History of the manuscript, its physical characteristics, debate regarding Milton's authorship.

A 1995 article by Daniel W. Doerksen, published in "Early Modern Literary Studies."

Notes on Milton's marginalia, as pertaining to his copy of Lycophron's Alexandra. By John K. Hale.

Reviews of books about Milton, from Kevin J.T. Creamer, University of Richmond.

Many bibliographic entries of primary and secondary sources. From R.G. Siemens, University of Alberta.

Background on Milton's religious convictions, and how they relate to his political tracts.

An article by Peter Stockwell.

Eric C. Brown suggests that in terms of name Lycidas, "Comparatively little study has been made, however, of the etymological complexity of the name."

Text, essays, indexes, illustrations, questions and answers.

Essay that engages Milton's "Comus" as a means of analyzing Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

J. Michael Vinovich analyzes "how Milton's biography has been constructed . . [and] how its ideological and institutional protocols constrain reading strategies that threaten to qualify it."

Analyses the issues surrounding "Milton and his supposed scribbles in a 1591 edition of Sir John Harington's translation of Ariosto." By Roy Flannagan.

John Minot's explication of the sentence that bridges the octave and sestet of the sonnet.

From the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference comes the article, "Poetical Historiography: Milton?s History of Britain as a Literary Text," by James Egan.

"The Father's House: Samson Agonistes in its Historical Moment," by John Guillory. Excerpt from the book, "Re-Membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions," ed. Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson.

Scholarly journal devoted to his life and writings.