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Catherine Nicholson

Catherine Nicholson is a Professor of English at Yale and the author of Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene” and Uncommon Tongues. (June 2022)

Improving Paradise

For Milton, innocence was interesting—a significant innovation on his biblical source material.

Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton

by Katie Kadue

Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England

by Timothy M. Harrison

Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton

by Nicholas McDowell

Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

by Joe Moshenska

June 23, 2022 issue

Who’s Afraid of Edmund Spenser?

September 23, 2021 issue

The Triumph of Mutabilitie

Edmund Spenser’s long, daunting The Faerie Queen combines political allegory with some of the most flickering, ambiguous poetry in English.

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

by Hazel Wilkinson

Spenserian Moments

by Gordon Teskey

July 1, 2021 issue

Letter

Michael Beard

Who’s Afraid of Edmund Spenser?

September 23, 2021 issue

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