Books by Watson Kirkconnell

An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.

Thirty-seven years of research in the libraries of the world have unearthed an impressive array of analogues of Comus, Lycidas, Paradise Regained, and the more important of these are now made available in Kirkconnell's English translation in Awake the Courteous Echo.

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama. The author has gone back in every instance to primary sources, and examined all treatments of Milton's theme, in all languages, for their intrinsic interest and merit.