Related Resources

Blake’s and Donne’s “Golden Compasses” (PDF)
[Links to images and text.]

Keats on “negative capability”
[A fuller transcription of the letter in which JK coined this famous phrase.]

Oxford English Dictionary
[Use this dictionary to find the full range of a word’s possible meanings as well as its etymology.]

The Bible
[Searchable text; use the King James Version.]

NetBible
[Searchable text translated by scholars “from the best currently available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts,” with commentary by translators. Use especially with Nyquist reading on Genesis.]

JSTOR Journal Archive
[Invaluable resource for finding articles.]

Catholic Encyclopedia
[A useful resource for questions about Christian belief, even though Milton was not Catholic.]

Early editions: 1667a (PDF), 1668a (PDF), 1668b (PDF), and 1674 (PDF) — Title pages and front matter for Book I from different years.

John Dryden, “State of Innocence” — Paradise Lost in rhymed verse, by Milton’s younger contemporary. (Act 1, Scene 1.)

Sources for The Golden Compass (PDF)

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