Product Description: The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin...read more

Product Description: Part of the complete reissue of "The Oxford History of English Literature", this volume covers the first 60 years of the 17th century. The literature it examines ranges from poetry, prose and heroic verse to religious and scientific treatise.

Product Description: This volume, originally published in 1937, is reissued with a new preface and a few small corrections. A brilliant study of the continuing and changing uses of classical mythology in English poetry, it treats most of the major and many of the minor English poets since 1680 and includes a chapter on the use of myth in American verse...read more