RESOURCES:

• Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
• Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
• Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding John Milton.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	john milton Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."	Provides a large number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	john milton JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a number of revelant documents.
Encyclopedia Britannica	john milton Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	john milton Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text."	Provides a large number of relevant items.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online	milton, john Perform the default search.	Provides full-text poems and citations to anthologies which contain poems written by the author.
Literature Resource Center	john milton Perform the default (author) search and click on the link to Milton, John (1608-c. 1674).. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles.	Provides a number of quality documents.
MagillOnLiterature	john milton Perform the default search.	Provides a number of relevant items.
Research Library Complete	john milton Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals."	Provides a large number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Milton, John link.	Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	john milton Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a small number of quality items.
Story Finder	john, milton Perform the "Basic Search."	Provides a small number of full-text items by the author.
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Milton, John: Poetry link.	Provides a number of quality items.

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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

• To find works written by John Milton, do a catalog search for john milton and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.
  
• Approaches to teaching Milton’s Paradise lost
  PR3562A83 1986
  Location: Montgomery
  
• Reading Paradise lost
  PR3562C68
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• A preface to Paradise lost
  PR3562L4 1961
  Location: Dothan
  
• The lyric and dramatic Milton: selected papers from the English Institute
  PR3579S8
  Location: Troy, AL, Dorhan
  
• John Milton: a sketch of his life & writings
  PR3581B9 1967
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• John Milton-poet, priest, and prophet: a study of divine vocation
  PR3588.H48 1979
  Location: Phenix City
  
• The endless kingdom : Milton's scriptural society
  Location: eBook
  
• Altering eyes : new perspectives on Samson Agonistes
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton and the rabbis : Hebraism, Hellenism & Christianity
  Location: eBook
  
• Representing revolution in Milton and his contemporaries : religion, politics, and polemics in radical Puritanism
  Location: eBook
  
• Imperfect sense : The predicament of Milton's irony
  Location: eBook
  
• John Milton : comprehensive research and study guide
  Location: eBook
  
• The two poets of Paradise lost
  Location: eBook
  
• The Miltonic moment
  Location: eBook
  
• Keats's Paradise lost
  Location: eBook
  
• Ceremony and community from Herbert to Milton : literature, religion, and cultural conflict in seventeenth-century England
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton's warring angels : a study of critical engagements
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton and the tangles of Neaera's hair : the making of the 1645 poems
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton's angels
  Location: eBook
  
• The plan of Paradise lost
  Location: eBook
  
• Unediting the Renaissance : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton
  Location: eBook
  
• Paradise lost
  Location: eBook
  
• Joyce, Milton, and the theory of influence
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton's burden of interpretation
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton and the hermeneutic journey
  Location: eBook
  
• Torah and law in Paradise lost
  Location: eBook
  
• John Milton : the self and the world
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton, poet of duality : a study of semiosis in the poetry and the prose
  Location: eBook
  
• The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton
  Location: eBook
  
• Selected prose
  Location: eBook
  
• Paradise regained
  Location: eBook
  
• Psalms I-VIII, LXXX-LXXXVII
  Location: eBook
  
• Samson Agonistes
  Location: eBook
  
• Sonnets
  Location: eBook
  
• Essay On John Milton
  Location: eBook
  
• Comus : a mask
  Location: eBook
  
• (Of) Education : John Milton's tractate
  Location: eBook
  
• Poems of John Milton
  Location: eBook
  
• L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
  Location: eBook
  
• Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness : Milton and the obedient moment
  Location: eBook
  
• Milton and the ends of time
  PR3542 .T5 M55 2003
  Location: Dothan
  
• The tyranny of heaven : Milton's rejection of God as king
  PR3562 .B75 2004
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Milton and the grounds of contention
  PR3588 .M476 2003
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Coming of age as a poet : Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
  PR502 .V46 2003
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• Shifting contexts : reinterpreting Samson Agonistes
  PR3566 .W56 2002
  Location: Dothan
  
• John Milton: Poetry
  PR3588.M47 1978
  Location: Phenix City
  
• How Milton works
  PR3588 .F57 2001
  Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City
  
• Living texts : interpreting Milton
  PR3588 .L59 2000
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• The life of John Milton : a critical biography
  PR3581 .L45 2000
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• Milton, Spenser, and the epic tradition
  PN694 .E6 C66 1999
  Location: Montgomery
  
• Bodies and selves in early modern England : physiology and inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton
  PR428 .B63 S36 1999
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• The biblical presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake : a comparative study
  PR408 .B53 F57 1999
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• All in all : unity, diversity, and the Miltonic perspective
  PR3588 .A79 1999
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Medusa's mirrors : Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the metamorphosis of the female self
  PR429 .W64 W35 1998
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• John Milton : the prose works
  PR3592 .P7 C67 1998
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• A Milton chronology
  PR3583 .C36 1997
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Arenas of conflict : Milton and the unfettered mind
  PR3588 .A74 1997
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Milton's imperial epic : Paradise lost and the discourse of colonialism
  PR3562 .E89 1996
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• John Milton, a literary life
  PR3581 .B83 1995
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Moral fiction in Milton and Spenser
  PR3592 .E8 S84 1995
  Location: Troy, AL; Montgomery
  
• The New England Milton : literary reception and cultural authority in the early republic
  PR3588.V36 1993
  Location: Montgomery
  
• The empty garden : the subject of late Milton
  PR3588 .R86 1992
  Location: Phenix City
  
• Milton re-viewed : ten essays
  PR3588 .L38 1991
  Location: Montgomery
  
• Milton and the rise of Russian satanism
  PG 3065 D49 B67X 1991
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Puritan legacies : Paradise lost and the New England tradition, 1630-1890
  F7.S83 1990
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• England's time of crisis : from Shakespeare to Milton : a cultural history
  PR408.S64 M67 1989
  Location: Dothan
  
• Milton and the muses
  PR3592.M73 G7 1989
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Phenix City
  
• Remembering and repeating : Biblical creation in Paradise Lost
  PR3562.S35 1988
  Location: Dothan
  
• Paradise lost : ideal and tragic epic
  PR3562.B534 1988
  Location: Dothan
  
• The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton
  PN1333.H45 M3 1987
  Location: Dothan
  
• Milton and the sons of God : the divine image in Milton's epic poetry
  PR3592.G6 M34 1986
  Location: Dothan
  
• The feminine reclaimed : the idea of woman in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton
  PR429.W64 D38 1986
  Location: Dothan
  
• The wall of paradise : essays on Milton's poetics
  PR3592.A34 S74 1985
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• John Milton : the inner life
  PR3581.T49 1983
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Things unattempted : a study of Milton
  PR3588.R35 1983
  Location: Dothan
  
• Images of kingship in Paradise lost : Milton's politics and Christian liberty
  PR3562.D36 1983
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• The moment of explosion : Blake and the illustration of Milton
  PR3562.B38 1983
  Location: Montgomery
  
• The life of John Milton
  PR3581.W47 1983
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Montgomery
  
• Milton's good God : a study in literary theodicy
  PR3562.D28 1982
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• Poet of exile : a study of Milton's poetry
  PR3588.M376
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Milton and the art of sacred song : essays
  PR3588 .M475 1979
  Location: Phenix City
  
• Visionary poetics : Milton's tradition and his legacy
  PR3588.W56
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Toward Samson Agonistes : the growth of Milton's mind
  PR3566.R3
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Epic and tragic structure in Paradise lost
  PR3562.S64
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• One greater man : justice and damnation in Paradise lost
  PR3562.H32
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Paradise lost : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
  PR3560 1975
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Milton and the line of vision
  PR3588.M48
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan
  
• The mystical design of Paradise lost
  PR3562.C7
  Location: Dothan
  
• The Christian revolutionary : John Milton
  PR3588.R5
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Phenix City
  
• Achievements of the left hand: essays on the prose of John Milton
  PR3581.L47 1974
  Location: Dothan
  
• Parallels in Dante and Milton
  PQ4391 .M5 B3 1974
  Location: Phenix City
  
• Milton's unchanging mind; three essays
  PR3588.L4
  Location: Troy, AL
  
• Milton's epic process: Paradise lost and its Miltonic background
  PR3562.G75
  Location: Dothan; Montgomery

 

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SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

• Selected Poetry of John Milton
  http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet225.html
  
  
• John Milton
  http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton
  
  
• John Milton
  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmilton.htm
  
  
• Milton: Shorter Poems in English
  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/lycidas.html
  
  
• John Milton
  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton
  
  
• Milton and the Jacobean Church of England
  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-1/doermilt.html
  
  
• Milton Review
  http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/review.html
  
  
• England as Israel in Milton’s Writings
  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-2/halemil2.html
  
  
• Paradise Lost – Study Guide
  http://www.paradiselost.org
  
  
• Milton Reading Room
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton
  
  
• Biography: John Milton, poet
  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/11/08.html
  
  
• John Milton and Seventeenth Century Culture
  http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/milton.html
  
  
• John Milton
  http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/MILTON.HTM
  
  
• The John Milton Page
  http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/milton.htm
  
  
• Paradise Lost by John Milton Resource Page
  http://www3.cerritos.edu/fquaas/resources/English102/paradise_lost.htm
  
  
• Modern History Sourcebook: John Milton (1608-1674): Areopagitica,1643
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1643milton-areo.html