BBC Season Lifts Poetry Sales

June 26, 2009

BBC2 has produced a series of episodes focusing on poetry.  According to theBookseller.com, sales of John Milton’s Paradise Lost have increased threefold since the episode of Poetry Season aired.  In that episode, Armando Iannucci analyzed the poem.

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.

Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

June 29, 2008

Diane Kelsey McColley,  Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England.   Cambridge University Press, 2007.