John Milton's Paradise Lost

This bookopens with an introductory essayby Yale professor Harold Bloom, followed by seven essays by various scholars. The book includes a chronology of Milton's life, notes on the scholars who contributed to the volume, and a bibliography. The publishersofBloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of over 100 books, claim they present the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world. Essays include "Milton and Transumption," "Eve, Evening, and the Labor of Reading inParadise Lost," and "The Gender of Milton's Muse and the Problem of the Fit Reader."