Milton Sites

• Christ's College Cambridge: 400th Anniversary Celebration. These pages record the year of celebrations organised in 2008, offering podcasts and online versions of many events, including distinguished lectures, and continue to provide a set of resources for those interested in Milton. This is a resource well worth your browsing and attention.
• Darkness Visible: A Resource for Studying Paradise Lost. Prepared by students and other members of Christ's College Cambridge as part of Christ's quatercentenary celebrations of John Milton's birth.


• John Milton & Seventeenth-century Culture. An online exhibit prepared by the University of South Carolina Libraries.
• Professor John Rogers, Lectures on John Milton from English 220 (fall 2007) at Yale University.


• Gordon Campbell's entry for "Milton, John (1608–1674)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• John Milton Chronology - Roy C. Flannagan
• Milton's Rhetoric: Examples of Milton's Use of Classical Schemes and Tropes by Lee Jacobus
• Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources by R. G. Siemens. EMLS. A guide to over 300 resources for Milton Studies.
• Images and Resources from Luminarium: This site includes links to biographies, images, and other resources
• Michael Bryson's "Summaries and Analyses of Milton's Prose"
• George Klawitter's Collection of Paradise Lost Illustrations: including Doré, Martin, Medina, and Lens
• William Blake's Illustrations of Paradise Lost (1808)
• William Blake's Illustrations of Paradise Regained
• The Milton-L Homepage. The Online Center for Milton Studies

Reference Guides and Sources

• Google: The best all round search engine on the web
• TheEnglishCollection.com, a search engine designed instantly to locate audio and video files on the web relevant to English and American history and literature.
• Search 360, a federated search engine available to Dartmouth users only
• Search the MLA Biblography: Books and Articles in Literary Studies up to last year
• Search the Wilson Web Indexes for articles, books, and book reviews
• Search the Oxford English Dictionary: Most authoritative historical dictionary of English
• Search Britannica Online or for Dartmouth users: Britannica Online
• Dartmouth College Library Catalog
• A List of 17th-Century Printings of Milton's Poetry and Prose in Rauner Special Collections at Dartmouth
• Bibliography of Recent Criticism: A moderately selective list spanning 1987-2004
• Early English Books Online. Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
• Norton Topics Online: The Early 17th Century
• Voice of the Shuttle Resources: Very good guide to Web resources for the study of Renaissance and 17th-century Literature
• The Labyrinth: Classical Greek, Latin and Medieval Latin texts
• The British Monarchy: An official government site that includes biographies and speeches of monarchs, including some by Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I
• English Monarchs
• Online Classical and Medieval Library
• Renascence Editions: Growing list of Renaissance authors in HTML
• Web Gallery of Art. The best online resource for paintings and sculpture.
• The Chicago Manual of Style Online, Fifteenth Edition
• Citing On-line Sources--Style Guide

Classical Literature (Greek and Latin)

• MIT Classical Authors: HTML editions of Greek and Roman classics
• The Perseus Project Browser: Preferred HTML edition of classical literature.
• Index of Classical Authors in Perseus
• Aristotle's Poetics
• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Cicero Homepage
• Hesiod's Theogony
• Homer's Iliad
• Homer's Odyssey
• Horace's Odes
• Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Plato's Symposium
• Plato's Republic
• Tacitus, The Annals
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Virgil's Eclogues
• Virgil's Georgics

Bible and Reformation Commentary

• Bible and Early Fathers: Bible, Calvin and Geneva Commentaries, Reformation and Modern Evangelical Commentators. This anonymously edited Bible website appears to be related to Calvin College, a Christian institution.
• The Bible Gateway Search Engine: Search by KJV, Vulgate, and select portions. This site has an explicitly conservative evangelical Christian mission; it excludes versions of the Bible that have extensive textual notes. It is useful for searching the KJV, but not for understanding textual variants important to Bible scholarship today.
• The Bible Gateway: KJV. This site has an explicitly conservative evangelical Christian mission; it excludes versions of the Bible that have extensive textual notes. It is useful for searching the KJV, but not for understanding textual variants important to Bible scholarship today.
• The Geneva English Bible of 1599. This translation and its annotations were preferred by early modern English Puritans.
• NETBible: New English Translation and Bible Study Center. Although NETBible.org has an explicitly evangelical mission, this is the only online Bible that pays attention to textual scholarship and notes variant readings important to Bible scholars. This is not Milton's Bible, but it reveals important information about the Bible obscured by most other Bible websites.
• Early Christian Writings: Apocrypha, Gnostics.There is much more to early Christian writings than what survives as the canonized New Testament.
• Web Resources for Biblical Studies. A resource for serious, scholarly studies of the early Christian writings and their social world.
• The Blue Letter Bible. A Web Bible with links to Strong's Concordance and Hebrew and Greek lexicons. This site has an explicit evangelical mission.

Religion and Theology

• Classic Reformation texts from Reformation Ink. Includes Beza, Calvin, and Luther selections
• 1559 Book of Common Prayer. The Elizabethan Prayer Book for the Church of England, in current use in Milton's day.
• Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica. Most important medieval treatise on theology; still mostly current Roman Catholic Doctrine
• ICLNet Guide to Early Church Documents
• The New Catholic Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Catholic doctrine, teaching, history, traditions, and literature
• Council of Trent on Marriage.
• Augustine's On Christian Doctrine. Most important pre-reformation treatise on hermeneutics.

Other Useful Texts and Sites

• The Edmund Spenser Homepage
• Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
• Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
• Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
• Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie
• Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia (1581) or New Arcadia (1590)
• Renascence Editions. A very good selection of Renaissance texts on the web, including Marlowe, Rachel Speght, Francis Bacon, Esther Sowernam, Sidney, Spenser, Mary Sidney, Roger Ascham, Thomas Campion, and many others, growing all the time.
• Shakespeare. The preferred Shakepeare site on the Web
• Dante's Divine Commedy
• Francesco Petrarch and Laura de Noves, a site by Peter Sadlon
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• Giovanni Bocaccio's Decameron
• Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur
• Complete Works of Marlowe
• Seventeenth-century Women Writers from A Celebration of Women Writers
• Search the Brown Women Writers Project Database
• The William Blake Archive
• U Virginia's Electronic Text Center
• Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Milton Quarterly