Paradise Lost and other events in Cambridge
October 20, 2008
An update on events in Cambridge for the Milton 400th Anniversary
Celebrations from Dr. Gavin Alexander.
This Thursday 23 October, members of the Faculty of English will present
a reading of the whole of Paradise Lost, in collaboration with students,
colleagues, artists, and musicians. The reading will be broadcast live
online, and will begin at 9 am (BST). Further details:
http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/paradiselost.htm
Sharon Achinstein’s lecture on ‘Milton: Poetry vs. Prose’ is now
available as a podcast, along with lectures by Quentin Skinner and
Christopher Hill. The final two lecturers in the series are Geoffrey
Hill (29 October) and Christopher Ricks (26 November). Details and
links: http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/lectures.htm
Further information about the year’s events:
http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400
Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell
June 29, 2008
Diane Kelsey McColley, Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell. Ashgate, 2007. Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity.
Milton, Rights and Liberties
May 11, 2008
Tournu, Christophe, and Forsyth, Neil (eds), Milton, Rights and Liberties, (Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007)
ISBN 978-3-03911-236-4 / US-ISBN 978-0-8204-8917-9 pb.
The Milton Encyclopedia
March 1, 2008
Yale University Press has commissioned Tom Corns (University of Wales, Bangor) as editor-in-chief of The Milton Encyclopedia, a project announced at the recent IMS7. The project web site is now available, with a detailed plan (publication is planned for 2006/7 but there remains a list of available headwords), notes for contributors and a FAQ.
Milton’s Secrecy and Philosophical Hermenutics
March 1, 2008
Fleming, James Dougal. Milton’s Secrecy and Philosophical Hermenutics (Williston: Ashgate Publishing, 2008).
Podcast: Anna Beer on Milton
February 28, 2008
Anna Beer has a 23 minute podcast at the Guardian Unlimited in which she “discusses the times in which he lived, the impact of his relationships with friends and family, the work for which we know and revere him, and the power and passion of Paradise Lost’s Satan, perhaps his greatest creation.”
Anna Beer is the author of Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot. [Thanks to Paul Miller on Milton-L]



