These ten essays by the distinguished Milton scholar Edward Le Comte examines the various themes, context and structure of Milton’s poetry and prose, including particular focus on both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history.

Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London. Introduction by Michael Slater "From the Hardcover edition.

Besides being a dictionary of "hard words" in Milton - his allusions, geographic and mythological, classical and Biblical, literary and historical - his vocabulary, archaic, obsolete or special - the book also contains a descriptive entry ...