The Milton Encyclopedia

421 Pages·2012·5.65 MB·English

by  Thomas N. Corns

THE MILTON ENCYCLOPEDIA
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t h e
Milton Encyclopedia

E D I T E D BY
THOMAS N. CORNS
New Haven & London
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The Milton encyclopedia / edited by Thomas N. Corns.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Thomas N. Corns
Bangor University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sharon Achinstein
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Gordon Campbell
University of Leicester
Dennis Danielson
University of British Columbia
Stephen M. Fallon
University of Notre Dame
Roy Flannagan
University of South Carolina, Beaufort
Marshall Grossman (deceased)
University of Maryland
John K. Hale
University of Otago
N. H. Keeble
University of Stirling
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Pennsylvania State University
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Harvard University
David Loewenstein
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
The Milton Encyclopedia 1
Bibliography 395
List of Contributors 405
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Illustrations
Article: William Blake 17. Jane Giraud, Paradise Lost (1846), title page
18. Harrison Weir, Comus (1858)
1. William Blake, Milton (1804), title page
19. Birket Foster, Comus (1858)
2. Blake, Milton, plate 29
20. Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Comus (1858)
3. Blake, Milton, plate 15
21. E. H. Corbould, Comus (1858)
4. Blake, Comus (1801), plate 7
22. Jessie King, Comus (1906)
5. Blake, Paradise Lost (1807), plate 11
23. King, Comus
6. Blake, Paradise Regained (1816), plate 4
24. A. Garth Jones, Comus (1898)
7. Blake, Milton, plate 13
25. Jones, Comus
Article: Illustrations of Milton’s works 26. Jones, Comus
27. William Blake, Comus (1801)
1. Bernard Lens, Paradise Lost (1688), book 4
28. A. Garth Jones, Samson Agonistes (1898)
2. John Baptist Medina, Paradise Lost (1688),
29. Arthur Rackham, Comus (1921)
book 9
30. Rackham, Comus
3. Francis Hayman, Paradise Lost (1749), book 4
31. Rackham, Comus
4. Jean-Frédéric Schall, Paradise Lost (1792),
32. Rackham, Comus
book 4
33. Mildred R. H. Farrar, Comus (1937)
5. Schall, Paradise Lost, book 2
34. Edmund Dulac, Comus (1954)
6. Louis Chéron, Samson Agonistes (1720)
35. Trina Schart Hyman, Comus (1996)
7. Francis Hayman, Samson Agonistes (1752)
36. William Hyde, Samson Agonistes (1904)
8. John Graham, Samson Agonistes (1796)
37. Robert Ashwin Maynard, Samson Agonistes
9. Richard Westall, Samson Agonistes (1794–
(1931)
1797)
38. Robert Medley, Samson Agonistes (1979)
10. William Blake, Paradise Lost (1808), book 5
39. Medley, Samson Agonistes
11. Henry Fuseli, Paradise Lost (1794–1796),
book 2 40. Carlotta Petrina, Paradise Lost (1936), book 9
12. Fuseli, Paradise Lost (1779), book 4 41. Petrina, Paradise Lost, book 6
13. Fuseli, Paradise Lost (1802), book 12 42. Petrina, Paradise Lost, book 12
14. John Martin, Paradise Lost (1824–1827), 43. Mary Elizabeth Groom, Paradise Lost (1937),
book 4 book 5
15. Martin, Paradise Lost, book 5 44. Alexis Smith, Snake Path (1992)
16. Martin, Paradise Lost, book 10 45. Smith, Snake Path
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