Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

Originally published in 1985.

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391 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

An authority on Renaissance literature and the life of John Milton, Barbara Josephine Lewalski was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University. She earned her B.S.E. at Emporia State University in 1950 her A.M. in 1951, and her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1956.