This website was created to accompany a paper by George Klawitter. The paper, entitled "John Martin's Revolution and Grandeur: A New Direction for Milton's Early Illustrators," was delivered at the South-Central Renaissance Conference in St. Louis (March 1996) and published in the journal Explorations in Renaissance Culture (1998, pages 91-117). John Martin was a distinguished artist in the line of those who illustrated Paradise Lost.

All images used (with the exception of the Dore, Fuseli, and Blake images) are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. For attribution, please refer to the source page.