Brief description:
Peter C. Herman is professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. He has published two books, Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude (2005) and Squitter-Witts and Muse-Haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment (1996), and has edited Historicizing Theory (2004), Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy (2000), and Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I (2002). His essay have appeared in such journals as Renaissance Quarterly, SEL, and Criticism.
Review Quotes:
Milton is a vast an intricate author, and for teaching his shorter poetry and prose, the contributions Peter Herman assembles from a distinguished cast will console instructors in search of help. --Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University