The 10 essays in this collection were selected from over 70 presented at the 2007 Conference on John Milton, held every two years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Among their topics are passion and allusion in Paradise Lost, Satan's envy and poetic emulation, self-sacrifice and heroic martyrdom in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost, nonverbal signs and material pages in the 1645 Poems, spiritual reading in Areopagitica, and restoration polemic and the making of the papist Milton. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)