1. Thomas N. Corns, “Milton and the Limitations of Englishness,” in Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, ed. David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 209.
2. John Milton, The Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1957).
3. Bruce McLeod, “The ‘Lordly eye’: Milton and the Strategic Geography of Empire,” in Milton and the Imperial Vision, ed. Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1999), 66.
4. See Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1978).
5. Martin J. Evans, Milton’s Imperial Epic: “Paradise Lost” and the Discourse of Colonialism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996)