Francis C. Blessington

Professor, Ph.D. Brown University

• Research areas and interests: Milton and 17th-century literature, the classics, creative writing
• Selected publications: The Last Witch of Dogtown (novel); Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic; Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic; Euripides: The Bacchae and Aristophanes: The Frogs (verse translations); Lantskip (poems); Lorenzo de'Medici (play); Wolf Howl (poems)