Books by Alastair Fowler

Milton's "Paradise Lost" is one of the great works of literature. This work provides contextual information and notes on composition and context combined with an explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. It also summarises the vast body of critical attention it has attracted.

A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the humanists. Dr Fowler demonstrates numerology's persistence in the works of Spenser, Sidney, Chapman, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Dryden and others.

Kinds of Literature An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes