Semenza, Gregory, ed. Milton in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Breathing life into Milton for the twenty-first century, this cutting-edge collection shows students and scholars alike how Milton transforms and is transformed by popular literature and polemics, film and television, and other modern media.

“Knoppers and Semenza have produced a collection of essays, innovative in spirit, bold in assertion, that will become the emanating center for many (as yet unwritten) contributions to a new Milton criticism in which the inflection falls less on what Milton tells us about popular culture than on what popular culture tells us about Milton. It tells us resoundingly, as Philip Pullman recently declared, that Milton's poetry is with us everywhere: it has never given us the slip. It just ‘will not go away.’”
Joesph Wittreich, Distinguished Professor of English, The Graduate Center, CUNY