Paradise Lost Audiotexts

June 30, 2008

Olin Bjork writes to tell of a project he and John Rumrich have been developing for the last 3-4 years: Paradise Lost Audiotexts. Books One and Nine are currently available.

Audio Readings of L’Allegro and Il Penseroso

June 30, 2008

Gardner Campbell has posted recordings of Il Penseroso and L’Allegro on his web site.

Il Penseroso with introduction (MP3)

L’Allegro (MP3)

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.

Milton’s Paradise Lost: Moral Education

June 29, 2008

Thickstun, Margaret, Milton’s Paradise Lost: Moral Education, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

“The Belial Tradition in Old English: Satan’s Emissary in Cynewulf’s Juliana.”

June 29, 2008

T. Ross Leasure, “The Belial Tradition in Old English: Satan’s Emissary in Cynewulf’s Juliana.” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 47 (2008): 3-16.

Milton in France

June 29, 2008

Tournu, Christophe (ed.)
Milton in France.
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2008.
XII, 381 pp. ISBN 978-3-03911-604-1.
$87.95.

John Basinger’s Paradise Lost on DVD

June 17, 2008

John Basinger has produced a DVD set of his performances of Paradise Lost.  The four-disc set includes his performances of all twelve books of the poem, along with a documentary, “Thus Spake John,” a short film, “The Golden Smile,” and a monody, “Forsake me not thus, Adam.”