Milton and maternal mortality

"Exquisitt torment" and "infinitt grace" : maternal suffering and the rites of childbirth

When things went wrong : maternal mortality and obstetric anxiety

Religious frameworks

"Too much conceaving" : Milton's "On Shakespear"

"Tears of perfect moan" : Milton and the Marchioness of Winchester

"Farr above in spangled sheen" : A mask and its epilogue

The wide wound and the veil : sonnet 23 and the "birth" of Eve in Paradise lost

"Conscious terrours" and "The promis'd seed" : seventeenth-century obstetrics and the allegory of sin and death in Paradise lost

The "womb of waters" and the "abortive gulph" : on the reproductive imagery of Milton's cosmos.