Stanley fish, now at the University of Illinois in Chicago, is probably the most eminent provocateur in America's Eng-Lit establishment, chided for all manner of intellectual sin from relativism to political correctness. He is also, more pertinently, its most famous Miltonist. In 1967 he wrote a book called "Surprised by Sin", which argued that "Paradise Lost" tricks its readers into sympathising with wickedness in order to educate them in goodness. This had a big influence on how Milton was read. Since then he has written with great acclaim on literary theory, psychoanalysis and legal theory.
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