THE COMPLETE CRITICAL GUIDE TO JOHN MILTON

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The reader will also want to know how literary critics have dealt with the same questions and what conclusions they have reached. Part III will deal with this. Throughout the Guide bracketed references will assist the reader in their pursuit of such contentious issues, directing them to the relevant parts of each section. The principal benefit for the reader of this triple perspective on Milton is that it strikes a unique balance between the provision of information and explanation. The fact that Milton’s first wife left him in 1642 and that the following year he published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce is beyond dispute. The dispute to which these events contribute also involves Milton’s representation of gender in his poems: was he a misogynist and, if so, how did personal experience contribute to his state of mind? This question has divided modern feminist critics.