Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost , on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers. Specifically, the book examines the way in which these writers use the Fall, and the notion of ‘fallenness’—as envisioned in Paradise Lost —as a model for writing about their roles as poets/writers in periods of political and cultural turmoil. This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students o