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Books about John Milton:

• The Life of Milton, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Milton, by Mark Pattison (Gutenberg text)
• Milton: Man and Poet (original magazine version, 1911), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Attempt Towards the Character of the Royal Martyr King Charles I (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1738), by Zachary Grey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Puritanism and its Leaders: Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, Bunyan (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by John Tulloch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co., 1870), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the English Poets: Waller, Milton, Cowley, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Great Writers: Cervantes, Scott, Milton, Virgil, Montaigne, Shakspere (New York: McClure Co., 1907), by George Edward Woodberry
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Milton's Tercentenary: An Address Delivered Before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet, by John Spencer Hill, contrib. by John Milton (HTML in the UK)
• Milton Agonistes: A Metaphysical Criticism (London: A. M. Philpot, ca. 1923), by E. H. Visiak
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Milton's Tercentenary: An Address Delivered Before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)

• Mary Powell and Deborah's Diary (London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Anne Manning (Gutenberg text)

• Milton and the Renaissance Ovid (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Davis P. Harding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Milton: A Poem (4 copies printed by Blake, ca. 1811-1818), by William Blake (multiple formats with commentary at blakearchive.org)

• Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (Germanic Literature and Culture series; New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Metaphoric Structure of Paradise Lost (originally published 1962; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jackson I. Cope (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

Books by John Milton:

• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Areopagitica (multiple editions)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Areopagitica
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • Gutenberg text
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Areopagitica (with scholarly commentary and annotations), contrib. by Thomas H. Luxon, Nathan Chaney, and Casey Noga (HTML at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Areopagitica (London, 1644)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Colasterion (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Complete Poems of John Milton, Written in English (HTML at Bartleby)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Comus, A Mask (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: A Defence of the People of England, In Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King (1692) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674, contrib.: Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, also contrib. by Francis Bacon and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The History of Britain (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Il Penseroso (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674, contrib.: John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet, by John Spencer Hill (HTML in the UK)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The John Milton Reading Room (HTML at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674, trans.: The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce, by Martin Bucer (HTML at Michigan)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: L'Allegro (HTML at bartleby.com)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Lycidas (HTML at bartleby.com)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Co., c1907), contrib. by Walter Taylor Field
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Of Education
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
  • HTML with commentary at Bartleby
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: An Ode (Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1910), illust. by Ralph Fletcher Seymour (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Lost (multiple editions)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Lost (Gutenberg text)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Lost (10 book edition; London: P. Parker, 1667) (HTML with line numbers at Renascence Editions)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Ten Books (London: Printed by S. Simmons, 1668) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books (London: S. Simmons, 1674) (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in IV Books; To Which is Added Samson Agonistes (London: Printed by J. M. for J. Starkey, 1671)
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Paradise Regained
  • HTML with line numbers at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton, trans. by William Cowper (Gutenberg text)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at Several Times (1645) (HTML at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Poetical Works of John Milton (Latin portions omitted; Dore illustrations added to Paradise Lost), ed. by H. C. Beeching, illust. by Gustave Doré (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Poetical Works of John Milton, Edited After the Original Texts (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1900), ed. by H. C. Beeching (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Prose Works of John Milton, With a Biographical Introduction (2 volumes; Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660) (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Samson Agonistes
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: Tetrachordon (illustrated HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Milton, John, 1608-1674: A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shewing That it is Not Lawfull for Any Power on Earth to Compell in Matters of Religion (1659) (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)