Shall I go on?
Colin Burrow: Loving Milton, 7 March 2013
The Complete Works of John Milton. Vol. VIII: De Doctrina Christiana
edited by John Hale and J. Donald Cullington.
Oxford, 1263 pp., £225, September 2012,978 0 19 923451 6 Show More
edited by John Hale and J. Donald Cullington.
Oxford, 1263 pp., £225, September 2012,
Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-42
edited by Edward Jones.
Oxford, 343 pp., £60, November 2012,978 0 19 969870 7 Show More
edited by Edward Jones.
Oxford, 343 pp., £60, November 2012,
The Complete Works of John Milton. Vol. III: The Shorter Poems
edited by Barbara Lewalski and Estelle Haan.
Oxford, 632 pp., £125, October 2012,978 0 19 960901 7 Show More
edited by Barbara Lewalski and Estelle Haan.
Oxford, 632 pp., £125, October 2012,
“... The quatercentenary of Milton’s birth was in 2008. The celebratory shenanigans – the conferences, public lectures, biographies and privy pieces of self-promotion that in our wicked age accompany all major anniversaries – are over. But one key question remains unanswered. How is it possible to like Milton? There is certainly a great deal to dislike ... ”
