"By isolating and discussing competing hermeneutics as integral to Milton's poetry, the essays in this collection show a writer unwilling to present formulae or neat packages of doctrine,
instead envisioning writing as a means to search after truth and reading as a process in which the reader must do her own choosing." This statement is from the introduction to 11 contributions,
including one each by editors Richard J. DuRocher (deceased; English, St. Olaf College) and Margaret Olofson Thickstun (English, Hamilton College). Arrangement is in sections on violence,
Paradise Lost, and cruxes in Milton's major poems. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
