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

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 often draws. More importantly, she is well acquainted with Milton's Renaissance neo-Latin predecessors and contemporaries, about whose intertextual relationship with Milton relatively little has been said. ...

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