Milton’s Paradise Lost: Previously Unrecognized Allusions to the Aurora Borealis, and a Solution to the Comet Conundrum in Book 2

• Published in: Renaissance and Reformation
• Main Author: Cunningham, Clifford J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Iter Press 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Milton; Arctique*; Aurore boréale
• Online Access: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/renref/article/view/26541; https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v39i1.26541

This article reveals that John Milton employed an allusion to the aurora borealis in book 6 (79–83) of Paradise Lost, unrecognized in more than three centuries of scholarly analysis. Two other likely allusions, and one certain, to the aurora have also been identified. This research casts doubt on th...