This book reads Milton’s Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton’s characters enter the action in late adolescence,
The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s tremendous literary output between 1655 and 1700. They include examples of key Quaker literary genres
"By isolating and discussing competing hermeneutics as integral to Milton's poetry, the essays in this collection show a writer unwilling to present formulae or neat packages of doctrine, instead envi