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How Milton Works.(author John Milton)(Book Review)

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From: Criticism
Date: 20020922
Author:Schiffhorst, Gerald J.

by Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. vii + 616. $35.00 cloth.

In 1967, Surprised by Sin: The Reader in "Paradise Lost" established Stanley Fish as a major critic of Milton and an outstanding practitioner of reader-response theory. Now, some thirty-five years later, and with a certain reputation as a cultural critic and theorist, he turns his attention to the poet's work as a whole in a study that reproduces ten older essays and adds five new ones to produce a lengthy study boldly titled How Milton Works. The effect ...

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