“A New Companion to Milton, edited by Thomas N. Corns, is a veritable compendium. With sections on The Cultural Context, Politics and Religion, Texts, Influence and Impact, and Chronology, and almost forty chapters, this is an impressive tome in every way.”
―George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Volume 57, Number 3, Summer 2017
“A New Companion to Milton updates the award-winning Blackwell Companion from 2001 by providing revisions of all but one of its original essays and by supplementing them with nine new essays on subjects ranging from Milton’s sonnets and Latinity to his epic precursors and global reach. Particularly noteworthy are reports on the poet’s afterlife in the Arabic-speaking world, Spanish-speaking America, China, India, Korea, and Japan.”
―Edward Jones, The Milton Quarterly
“The first edition of A Companion to Milton has long been an invaluable resource for students of Milton, and after 15 years, the expansion and reworking of the essays brings scholarship and critical thinking up to date. Thomas Corns has once again done a splendid job of assembling a team of scholars who can write accessibly and engagingly about Milton.”
―Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
“A New Companion to Milton – a revised, updated, and enlarged edition of the outstanding first Blackwell’s Companion – will prove indispensable for all students and scholars of Milton and his works. The range of essays is formidable, and the new section on Milton’s global impact is particularly welcome”
―Karen Edwards, University of Exeter
From the Inside Flap
A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. The Companion explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.
Extensively revised and updated to reflect the most recent research, this new edition also conveys the excitement of recent developments through the addition of eight original essays, each of which engages closely with Milton’s poetic oeuvre. It now includes a new section exploring Milton’s global impact in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish-speaking American and the Arab-speaking world, along with a chronology which sets Milton’s life and work in the context of his age. The result is a thoroughly wide-ranging Companion that offers a balance between critical
readings and historical and cultural context.
From the Back Cover
A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. The Companion explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.
Extensively revised and updated to reflect the most recent research, this new edition also conveys the excitement of recent developments through the addition of eight original essays, each of which engages closely with Milton’s poetic oeuvre. It now includes a new section exploring Milton’s global impact in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish-speaking American and the Arab-speaking world, along with a chronology which sets Milton’s life and work in the context of his age. The result is a thoroughly wide-ranging Companion that offers a balance between critical
readings and historical and cultural context.
About the Author
Thomas N. Corns is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. Together with Gordon Campbell, he is the General Editor of The Complete Works of John Milton. His recent publications include John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Gordon Campbell, 2008), an edition of the complete works of Gerrard Winstanley (with Ann Hughes and David Loewenstein, 2009), and The Milton Encyclopedia (2012). He is currently working with David Loewenstein on a scholarly edition of Paradise Lost. Professor Corns is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
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