Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader

This book explores what Romantic literature does with questions Milton had posed, in the ambiguous language of Paradise Lost, about revolution and religion, sexuality and selfhood. The major works of the poets Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Byron and the prose writers Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, De Quincy, Lamb and Hazlitt are considered in detail.