John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989–1999

Bibliography and Reference Works

1 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE WORKS 4. Corns, Thomas N., and Jim Daems. “A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Milton’s Prose.” MiltonQ 33 (1999): 1–21. Lists 221 items, with additional entries listed under several of them. “This bibliography is both personal and purposeful. We offer our own views of those avenues by which our contemporaries may access and advance the study of Milton’s prose. We have not aimed at exhaustivity” (1). The method of compilation “is to select, to order and to recommend; we neither disguise nor apologize for its subjectivity and its underlying tendency” (2). 5. Dissertation Abstracts International. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. Microfilms International. Published annually since 1938. The A volume includes abstracts of dissertations in English literature. Restricted mainly to universities in the United States and Canada. Available at http://library.dialog. com/bluesheets/htmlaa/bl0035/html. 6. Florén, Celia, ed. John Milton: A Concordance of “Paradise Lost.” Hildesheim , Zürich: Olms-Weidmann, 1992. 2 vols. Vol. 1, A–N, 561 pp. Vol. 2, O–Z, pp. 562–1171. The concordance contains “the key word in the centre of the page, in a context of approximately sixty characters to the right and the left” (vii). Also contains a word list in order of frequency, which includes all words that appear at least eight times. “The word list is accompanied by thirteen columns of figures. The first corresponds to the total number of occurrences of the 1. Alston, R. C. Books in Manuscript: A Short Title List of Books with Manuscript Notes in the British Library. London: The British Library, 1994. xiv, 663 pp. Includes “books with manuscript additions , proofsheets, illustrations, corrections [,] with indexes of owners and books with authorial annotations” (iii). Cites on pp. 385–86 various books by Milton, including a 1667 edition of Paradise Lost, 1645 editions of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and Tetrachordon, the 1645 Poems, and assorted eighteenth and nineteenth century editions, such as Charles Lamb’s 1820 edition of Paradise Lost. Review: T. A. Birnell, ES 76 (1995): 284–85. 2. Bauman, Michael, comp. A Scripture Index to John Milton’s “De Doctrina Christiana.” Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989. 179 pp. Presents the Bible references in Christian Doctrine, arranged in biblical sequence. Lists passages according to the Authorized Version designation and cites variations in brackets. Keyed to both the Yale and the Columbia editions. Review: Donald T. Williams, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34 (1991): 283–84. 3. Benet, Diana Treviño, and Michael Lieb, comp. “Publications of John T. Shawcross on John Milton.” In Literary Milton: Text, Pretext, Context. Ed. Diana Treviño Benet and Michael Lieb. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1994, pp. 257–64. 2 JOHN MILTON: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1989–1999 word in the whole poem. The following twelve columns specify the number of occurrences of the word in each of the twelve books of the poem” (1051). There is also a word frequency list. 7. Garrod, H. W. “Milton Indexed,” in “Reference Books.” In The Study of Good Letters. Ed. John Jones. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, pp. 157–60. Reviews An Index to the Columbia Edition of the Works of Milton, 1940. Finds that the work is primarily concerned with indexing “not Milton’s words, but his ideas” (157). Despite praising the task of indexing in general, maintains that the Columbia index is a “mixed blessing” (159) because, though ambitious, it is not exhaustive. 8. Himy, Armand. “Bibliographie sélective et critique sur Comus.” In John Milton: Comus, or A Maske at Ludlow Castle. Ed. Armand Himy. Paris: Éditions Européenes Erasme, 1990, pp. 113–19. Lists English editions of the poems, French translations, music related to Comus, general studies germane to Comus, and specific studies on Comus. Contains brief annotations. 9. Himy, Armand. “Poèmes mineurs de John Milton Comus, Lycidas, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso.” BSEAA 29 (Nov. 1989): 7–24. Lists English editions of the poems, French translations, general studies dealing with Milton’s life and works and containing criticism of the four poems and individual studies of the poems. Contains brief annotations. 10. Huckabay, Calvin, comp., Paul J. Klemp, ed. John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968–1988. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1996. xxiv + 535 pp. Contains 4,571 entries. Classifications include bibliography and reference works, biography, editions of Milton’s works, translations, general criticism, criticism of the individual works, style and versification, criticism of editions, translations and illustrations, and fame and...