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In the first edition of The Poetry of Meditation (1954), Louis Martz presented an analysis of some seventeenth-century poetry, arguing that it reflected the practice of methodical meditation (drawn largely [...]

Milton's brief biblical epic Paradise Regain'd employs the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness in the order given in Luke 4 as 'plot,' thus presenting Satan's offers of lures involving [...]

In December 1999 newspaper and television reporters talked about the year 2000 as a new millennium, but now we are in 2002--a new year and correctly a new millennium. John [...]

That Herman Melville read widely and employed various authors in his own work has been long established. That one of those authors was John Milton has been demonstrated for such [...]

John Milton's poem 'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' contains a subtext of political liberation, using liturgical language. The poem is ostensibly a lament for the death of Milton's niece. Liturgical concepts from the Feasts of St. Anne and St. Joachim are used which refer to a new birth to redeem worldly conditions. The context of the poem indicates that the conditions to be redeemed were the oppressive English monarchy of 1628., In his poem on the death of his niece, Anne, daughter of Anne and Edward Phillips, Milton makes reference to his sister's current pregnancy. His niece was baptized on January [...]

WILDING, Michael. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 8. Sydney: Berget, 1993. 186 pp. $25.00 Australian. Michael Wilding has published here in one format seven previously published essays written over [...]

The collection catalogued in this beautifully printed and illustrated volume has now been sold, but the record of works is a significant reference for those interested in the study of [...]