"Approaches to Teaching Milton's "Paradise Lost 2/e"

Peter C. Herman is the author of Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England; A Short History of Early Modern England;and Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and the Poetics of Incertitude. He also edited Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Proseand co-edited, with Elizabeth Sauer, The New Milton Criticism(under submission). He teaches at San Diego State University.

"This is an exemplary anthology of essays, all of them anchored in pedagogical concerns." -- Joseph Wittreich, Graduate Center, City University of New York "While the essays are frequently addressed to experienced scholars and teachers of Milton, most are diligent about making their arguments accessible and useful to those teaching his epic for the first time. . . . [T]he very best essays develop pedagogical frameworks that could potentially animate and structure entire lectures, discussions, or even semesters. . . . A number of essays compress a voluminous body of research into a compact form geared toward classroom discussion and lecture. . . . [The volume] is a fine representation of the diversity of current Milton pedagogy, rules by no orthodoxy, unified solely in its desire to produce new generations of readers excited to ask questions of Milton's great epic and discover new answers." --Daniel Shore, Milton Quarterly