“Every Living Thing”: Life and Endeavor in Milton’s Paradise Lost

TIMOTHY M. HARRISON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2020) and, with Elizabeth D. Harvey (University of Toronto), John Donne’s Physics (Chicago, 2024). He is currently working on two books: first, Life in John Milton’s Late Poems; and, second, with Jane Mikkelson (Yale University), Horizons of the Mind: Self and World in Early Modern Persian and English Poetry.