Milton's Leveller God

Three and a half centuries after Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d were written, do Milton’s epic poems still resonate with contemporary concerns? In Milton’s Leveller God, David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton’s epics to show they are more relevant than ever.

Exploring two blind spots in the critical tradition - the failure to read Milton’s poetry as drama and to recognize his depictions of heaven’s political and social evolution - Williams reads Mi...