Download or read book The Atheist Milton written by Michael Bryson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was John Milton-possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history-an atheist? Among the author's goals in The Atheist Milton is to account for tensions over the idea of God which, in Bryson's view, go all the way back to Milton's earliest poetry. In this study, he argues such tensions are central to Milton's poetry-and to any attempt to understand that poetry on its own terms.