John Milton, published in 1991 by Oxford University Press, is a complete edition of Milton's poetry and prose works, with extensive textual notes.

The Complete Poems, published in 1999 by Penguin Classics, contains all of Milton's poems in a fully annotated edition.

A Preface to Milton, by Lois Potter, with a revised edition published in 2000 by Longman, is a slim book that provides background information on Milton and the period in which he lived.

George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets (1990), edited by Mario A. Di Cesare and published by W. W. Norton & Company, contains poems by Milton's contemporaries. This text also includes critical essays on these poets.

John Donne, published in 1990 by Oxford University Press, is a complete edition of Donne's work. A contemporary of Milton, Donne composed both secular and religious poetry, also manipulating and occasionally inventing variations on the...