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Thomas Cooper Library will mount an exhibit of a recently acquired major collection of materials by and about 17th-century English poet John Milton Sept. 21-Nov. 1.
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The exhibit in the library's mezzanine gallery will highlight the 6,000-volume collection of Robert J. Wickenheiser, a retired college president and former professor who began the collection while he was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s.The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton was purchased for the University with major support from William L. Richter and the William L. Richter Family Foundation, which contributes to various philanthropic and educational causes.
Richter is president of the Richter Investment Corporation and senior managing director of Cerberus Capital Management in New York.
The exhibit will open with a reception and talk by renowned Milton scholar John T. Shawcross at 4 p.m. Sept. 21. The event will be held in the Graniteville Room of Cooper Library and is free and open to the public. Shawcross is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky and a leading American Milton scholar.
A highlight of the collection is its many illustrated editions of Milton's works, including the first illustrated edition of Paradise Lost (1688) as well as original drawings by such major artists as John Martin (1789-1854) and Gustave Dore (1832-1883). Also included are first editions of Milton's works published from the 18th through the 20th centuries and many volumes of biography, scholarship, and criticism.
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Robert Wickenheiser shows a book from the collection to Elizabeth Sudduth, head of Special Collections Processing and Services at Thomas Cooper Library, during the pick-up of the collection in July this year. 
