Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century

This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the following century. It refutes the old argument about Milton's allegedly 'bad influence', and challenges more recent suggestions that great writers generally inhibit or oppress their successors. Professor Griffin examines the responses to Milton by major writers - Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Johnson, and Cowper - as well as by underrated minor figures such as Dennis, Watts, Akenside, Dyer, and John Philips, and indicates how central the inspiration of Milton was to their own work.Griffin, Dustin H. is the author of 'Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521309134 and ISBN 0521309131.