Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 "Poems".(Review)

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Low, Anthony | Copyright information

Stella P. Revard. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1997. xii + 299 pp. $44.95. ISBN 0-8262-1100-3.

When a new book appears on a poet already much written about, such as Milton, one may hope for two things: sympathetic understanding of the subject, and new insights or scholarly discoveries. Stella Revard produces both in her critical reading of Milton's 1645 Poems. One of her strengths is her knowledge of Classical Greek and Latin writers on whom Milton ...

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