Research Links

Milton Sites

• Biography of John Milton from The Poetry Foundation Website
• A New Recording of Paradise Lost from Trinity College Dublin's December 2012 marathon reading of the entire poem.
• Darkness Visible: A Resource for Studying Paradise Lost. Prepared by students and other members of Christ's College Cambridge as part of Christ's quatercentenary celebrations of John Milton's birth.
• Audio recording of the 1667 (first edition) Paradise Lost in Ten Books by LibriVox.
• John Milton & Seventeenth-century Culture. An online exhibit prepared by the University of South Carolina Libraries.
• Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts. From the Rutgers University Library
• The Trinity Manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge. Contains early manuscript versions of several poems that appear later in the 1645 Poems, including A Maske (Comus).
• Manuscript of Paradise Lost Book 1 from the Morgan Library and Museum in NYC. This site also includes a recording of Mark Rylance reading the opening of book 1.
• Gordon Campbell's entry for "Milton, John (1608–1674)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• John Milton Chronology - Roy C. Flannagan
• Milton's Rhetoric: Examples of Milton's Use of Classical Schemes and Tropes by Lee Jacobus
• Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources by R. G. Siemens. EMLS. A guide to over 300 resources for Milton Studies.
• Images and Resources from Luminarium: This site includes links to biographies, images, and other resources
• Michael Bryson's "Summaries and Analyses of Milton's Prose"
• William Blake's Illustrations of Paradise Regained
• The Milton-L Homepage. The Online Center for Milton Studies

Reference Guides and Sources

• Google: The best all round search engine on the web
• Search the MLA Biblography: Books and Articles in Literary Studies up to last year
• Search the Oxford English Dictionary: Most authoritative historical dictionary of English
• Dartmouth College Library Catalog
• A List of 17th-Century Printings of Milton's Poetry and Prose in Rauner Special Collections at Dartmouth
• Early English Books Online. Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
• Voice of the Shuttle Resources: Very good guide to Web resources for the study of Renaissance and 17th-century Literature
• Renascence Editions: Growing list of Renaissance authors in HTML
• Web Gallery of Art. The best online resource for paintings and sculpture.

Classical Literature (Greek and Latin)

• Aristotle's Poetics
• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Hesiod's Theogony
• Homer's Iliad
• Homer's Odyssey
• Horace's Odes
• Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Plato's Symposium
• Plato's Republic
• Tacitus, The Annals
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Virgil's Eclogues
• Virgil's Georgics
• The Latin Library

Bible and Reformation Commentary

• Bible and Early Fathers: Bible, Calvin and Geneva Commentaries, Reformation and Modern Evangelical Commentators. This anonymously edited Bible website appears to be related to Calvin College, a Christian institution.
• The Bible Gateway Search Engine: Search by KJV, Vulgate, and select portions. This site has an explicitly conservative evangelical Christian mission; it excludes versions of the Bible that have extensive textual notes. It is useful for searching the KJV, but not for understanding textual variants important to Bible scholarship today.
• The Bible Gateway: KJV. This site has an explicitly conservative evangelical Christian mission; it excludes versions of the Bible that have extensive textual notes. It is useful for searching the KJV, but not for understanding textual variants important to Bible scholarship today.
• The Geneva English Bible of 1599. This translation and its annotations were preferred by early modern English Puritans.
• Early Christian Writings: Apocrypha, Gnostics.There is much more to early Christian writings than what survives as the canonized New Testament.
• The Blue Letter Bible. A Web Bible with links to Strong's Concordance and Hebrew and Greek lexicons. This site has an explicit evangelical mission.

Religion and Theology

• 1559 Book of Common Prayer. The Elizabethan Prayer Book for the Church of England, in current use in Milton's day.
• Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica. Most important medieval treatise on theology; still mostly current Roman Catholic Doctrine
• ICLNet Guide to Early Church Documents
• The New Catholic Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Catholic doctrine, teaching, history, traditions, and literature
• Council of Trent on Marriage.
• Augustine's On Christian Doctrine. Most important pre-reformation treatise on hermeneutics.

Other Useful Texts and Sites

• Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
• Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
• Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
• Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie
• Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia (1581) or New Arcadia (1590)
• Renascence Editions. A very good selection of Renaissance texts on the web, including Marlowe, Rachel Speght, Francis Bacon, Esther Sowernam, Sidney, Spenser, Mary Sidney, Roger Ascham, Thomas Campion, and many others, growing all the time.
• Shakespeare. Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Dante's Divine Comedy
• Francesco Petrarch and Laura de Noves, a site by Peter Sadlon
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• Giovanni Bocaccio's Decameron
• Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur
• Complete Works of Marlowe
• Seventeenth-century Women Writers from A Celebration of Women Writers
• Search the Women Writers Project Database
• The William Blake Archive