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Appendix
Suggested Reading List

Apple, Michael W.,
and Linda K. Christian-Smith, eds. The Politics of the Textbook. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Barker, Arthur E.
Milton and the Puritan Dilemma 1641-1660. Reprinted, 1955, 1964 in Great Britain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1942.
Bloom, Harold.
Modern Critical Views: John Milton. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Boston, Robert.
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About the Separation of Church and State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993.
Chupack, Henry.
Roger Williams. New York: Twayne, 1969.
Corns, Thomas N.
"The Freedom of Reader-Response: Milton's of Reformation and Lilburne's Christian Mans Triall." Freedom and the English Revolution: Essays in History and Literature, ed. R. C. Richardson and G. M. Ridden. Manchester, 1986.
Danielson, Dennis, ed.
The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1989;
Fink, Zera S.
"On the Political Implications in Paradise Regained." Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
Haller, William.
Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution. 1955.
Hanford, James Holly.
A Milton Handbook. 4th edn. rev. ed. New York: Crofts, 1946.
Hill, Christopher.
Milton and the English Revolution. London, 1977.
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"Milton's of Reformation." ELH 1982.
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The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. New York: Viking, 1972.
Hill, Christopher,
and Edmund Dell, eds. The Good Old Cause: The English Revolution of 1640-1660, Its Causes, Course and Consequences. 2nd ed. London: Frank Cass & Co, 1969.
Hughes, Merritt Y., ed.
John Milton Complete Poems and Major Prose. Notes and Introductions by the ed. Indianapolis: Odyssey, 1957. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
Jenkinson, Edward B.
Censors in the Classroom: The Mind Benders. Carbondale, IL: Sou. Illinois UP, 1979.
Kelley, Maurice.
This Great Argument: A Study of Milton's "De Doctrina Christiana" as a Gloss Upon "Paradise Lost". Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1941.
Knight, Wilson G.
Chariot of Wrath: The Message of John Milton to Democracy at War. London, 1942.
Lewis, Clive S.
A Preface to "Paradise Lost", London, 1942.
Loewenstein, David,
and James Grantham Turner, eds. Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.
Miller, Perry,
and Thomas H. Johnson. The Puritans. New York: American Book Co., 1938.
Milner, Andrew.
John Milton and the English Revolution. London, 1981.
Morgan, Edmund S.
Roger Williams: The Church and the State. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
Patrides, C. A.
Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature. Princeton, 1982.
Sams, Horace, Jr.
Temptation in Imaginative Literature of Milton and Bunyan: Two Faces of the Puritan Persona. Diss. U. of South FL, 1985. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.
Saurat, Denis.
Milton: Man and Thinker. 2nd ed. London, 1946. Regarding this gook C.S. Lewis says Saurat "raised the right questions but has the wrong answers."
Seaver, Paul S.
The Puritan Lectureships: The Politics of Religious Dissent. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1970.
Smith, Nigel.
"Areopagitica: Voicing Contexts, 1643-5." Politics, Poetics, Hermaneutics in Milton's Prose. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.
Thorpe, James, ed.
Milton Criticism Selections from Four Centuries. New York: Collier, 1969; Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; and Macmillan, 1950.
Waldock, A. J. A.
"Paradise Lost" and Its Critics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1946.
Wilding, Michael.
"Milton's Areopagitica: Freedom for the Sects." Prose Studies 9 1986. Rpt. in The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius, ed. Thomas N. Corns (London, 1987).
Willey, Basil.
The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion. New York: Columbia UP, 1934; Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 1934.
Williams, Roger.
The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy: By Mr. Cottons Endeavour to Wash It White in the Blood of the Lambe (1652). Vol. 4. of The Collected Writings of Roger Willaims. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. 7 vols.
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The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for cause of Conscience, discussed, in a Conference betweene Truth and Peace (1644), pp. 1-425. Vol. 3. The Complete Writings. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. 7 vols.
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The Collected Writings (7 Vols). Perry Miller, ed. vol 7. Narragansett, RI: Narragansett Club, 1866-74. New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. The first six vols are facsimiles of vols edited for the Narragansett Club by J. H. Trumbull, R. A. Guild, J. Diman, S. L. Caldwell, and J. R. Bartlett, published between 1866 and 1874.
Witherspoon, Alexander M.,
and Frank J. Warnke, eds. Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry. 2nd ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
Wolfe, Don M.
Milton in the Puritan Revolution. First published in 1941. New York: Humanities Press, 1963.