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John Selden: Scholar, Statesman, Advocate for Milton's MuseJason Rosenblatt. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021. viii + 264pp. ISBN 13: 9780192842923. $90.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-09-15 David Norbrook
Milton's admiration for John Selden has long been known, but the great scholar's specialized historical and linguistic interests, laid out in rebarbative prose in long Latin texts, are a substantial deterrent to grasping the relations between the two writers. Jason Rosenblatt began this task in his pioneering Torah and Law in Paradise Lost (1994) and in John Selden: Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi
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The Two-Way Mockery in Harapha's Visit: A Typological Connection in Samson Agonistes Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Zeyi Zhang
In contrast to its final line that evokes “calm of mind,” Milton's tragedy Samson Agonistes has been aptly identified as “the major site of contestation within Milton studies” (Kelley and Wittreich 11). On the one hand, more traditional readers see Samson as the regenerated hero; among them, F. Michael Krouse establishes Samson as “an exemplar of faith” (130) by tracing historical and contemporary
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Milton and the New Scientific Age: Poetry, Science, FictionCatherine Gimelli Martin, ed. New York: Routledge, 2019. xv + 242pp. ISBN 13: 9780367182731. $140.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-04 David Carroll Simon
Catherine Gimelli Martin's previous scholarship has illuminated Milton's poetry by establishing connections to the thought of Francis Bacon and to the larger field of early modern science. In editing this volume, she has brilliantly advanced that project. The diversity of the assembled essays is evidence of the extraordinary richness of the topic. It is after all not so much a single topic as a set
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Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan David Gay. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2021. xiv + 209pp. ISBN 13:9781487505288. $70.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Alison A. Chapman
In his elegant Gifts and Graces, David Gay explores how the three key terms in his title—prayer, poetry, and polemic—were braided together in the early modern world. In reading this, I was struck again and again by how much prayer defined the period's different confessional groups—and, ironically, of how much prayer also came to divide them. By the seventeenth century, members of the Church of England
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Nicholas McDowell Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2020. xvi + 485pp. ISBN 13: 9780691154695. $35.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Blaine Greteman
Is this the last Milton biography? When setting out on a project such as this, any biographer must surely ask whether anything new remains to be said about the life of John Milton, whose has been written so often, and so well. Say what you will about Samuel Johnson, but he casts a long shadow, and to name just a few of the biographers who have written their way out from under it gives some idea of
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Emma Depledge, John S. Garrison, Marissa Nicosia, eds. Making Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021. xiv + 250pp. ISBN 13: 9780198821892. £70.00; $90.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Louis Schwartz
Because he so insistently “wrote himself,” as we say, into the work, the meaning of Milton's authorial persona—how it was created, how consistent it seems to be, its relationship to the flesh and blood human being we only imperfectly know from the biographical record, the ways in which it expresses various values and political positions, etc.—has always mattered to the reception and study of Milton's
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The Ancile in Pro Se Defensio Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-01 John K. Hale, J. Donald Cullington
Late in the Defence of Himself against Alexander Morus Milton taunts his opponent with an ill-judged reliance on irrelevant testimony. Morus has quoted the magistrates of Amsterdam as saying that during his conduct of public office there he had committed no disgrace (nihil admisisti). Milton retorts that since Morus had committed outrages before that time, the testimonials can have little weight, despite
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Elliot Vernon and Hunter Powell, eds Church Polity and Politics in the British Atlantic World, c. 1635–66. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2020. xii + 265pp. ISBN 13: 9780719090424. $120 (cloth) Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-05 George Southcombe
For Milton, Sir Henry Vane the Younger had “learned, which few have done,” the distinctions that should be drawn between “spiritual power and civil.” Certainly, few followed Vane in arguing for the necessity of a radical separation between church and state, but many engaged in the study of church polity came to markedly different conclusions. That much is obvious to any early modern historian, and
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Samson Agonistes, Charles II, and Restoration Delilahs Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Jennie Challinor
The anonymous satirical poem “Further Advice to a Painter” (early 1671), sometimes attributed to Andrew Marvell, opens with the spectral figure of Charles I weeping as he watches his “degenerate” son, King Charles II, neglect the “work of State” to romp with “his Player,” Nell Gwyn (Marvell 1: l. 310). The ghost of the former King appeared in this manuscript poem just a few months after the publication
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Spenserian Moments Gordon Teskey Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2019. 552 pp. ISBN 13: 9780674988446. $47.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Joe Moshenska
Do we need to choose between Edmund Spenser and John Milton—pick a team, as it were? The example set by Gordon Teskey across more than three decades of his unique and expansive scholarship makes this question harder to answer than it might appear. It has been clear since his 1986 article “From Allegory to Dialectic: Imagining Error in Spenser and Milton” that these two poets are intertwined and inseparable
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Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and TransformationsPaulina KewesAndrew McRae, eds. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019. 400 pp. ISBN 13: 9780198778172. $90.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-07 John Spurr
This volume is a fine example of contemporary early modern studies. Topped and tailed by the editors' Introduction and Paul Hammond's Afterword on the disenchantment of monarchy, these sixteen substantial essays by new and old hands from a number of disciplines illuminate the Stuart monarchy between the “succession crisis” of the 1590s and Queen Anne's coronation in 1702. Professors Kewes and McRae
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“Strange alteration!”: The Victorian Milton and a Book Bound in Human Skin Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Laura Fox Gill*
In the collections of the Devon Heritage Centre, located on an industrial estate on the outskirts of Exeter, there is what at first appears to be an unremarkable, leather-bound, Victorian edition of Milton's poetry. On opening the volume, however, the reader finds an extraordinary inscription: “This Book is bound with a part of the skin of George Cudmore who with Sarah Dunn was committed to the Devon
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People and Piety: Protestant Devotional Identities in Early Modern England Elizabeth ClarkeRobert W. Daniel, eds.Manchester: Manchester UP, 2020. xxiv + 293pp. ISBN 13: 9781526150127. $120.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Brooke Conti
This collection of fourteen essays provides a wealth of examples of the ways that devotional identities were formed and understood in early modern England. As the editors argue in their Introduction, the term “devotional identity” is a productive one for scholars of religion, opening up new ways of understanding the authors and subjects of devotional texts outside the mere denominational labels. No
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Henry Oldenburg and a Brief Notice of Milton’s Of Education in the Philosophical Transactions Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Thomas Vozar
Milton’s Of Education, first published as a stand alone eight-page quarto gathering in June 1644, was addressed “To Master Samuel Hartlib,” and Hartlib’s papers testify to the interest that the tractate generated in the late 1640s and 1650s among those in the intelligencer’s circle of correspondents, including John Dury, the Comenian educational reformer; Sir Cheney Culpeper, the Kentish landowner
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“Sweet Societies”: The Milton Society of America, April 2020–21 Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Angelica Duran
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“Villainously curtail’d”: John Milton, Joseph Jacob, and the 1689 Pro populo adversus tyrannos Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-05-01 William Poole,Alexandra Plane
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The Teaching of Milton in the Republic of China (1912‐49) † Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Tianhu Hao
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The Reception of C. S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015 Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Justin W. Keena
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Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660‐1714ElizabethSauer, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. xv + 402pp. ISBN 13: 9781108422680. $125.00 (cloth). Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Elizabeth Skerpan‐Wheeler
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What Do Adam and Eve Look Like after the Fall?: Appearance in Paradise Lost Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Stephen B. Dobranski
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Milton and Genealogical Poetry: Paul, Aratus, Lucretius, and Hesiod in Paradise Lost * Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Joshua R. Held
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“Whordoms and adulteries”: Sexual Crimes and Legal Reform in Milton’s Prose Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Lynne Greenberg
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Samson on the Yard: Teaching Milton’s Samson Agonistes in an Arizona Prison Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-10-01 David Hawkes,Joe Lockard
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“The Excess of Glory Obscured”: Behemoth and Anti‐Theodicy in Paradise Lost Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-10-01 William Dean Clement
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Milton’s Arithmetic of Salvation in His Talent Sonnets 7 and 19 Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Nadine Tara Weiss
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Live and Virtual Proceedings of the Milton Society of America Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-05-01 John Rumrich
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Roy C. Flannagan (1939–2020) Scholar, Editor, Colleague, and Friend Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-05-01 William P. Shaw
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Milton’s Rhymes: Sound and Sense in His English Sonnets Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Henry Weinfield
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The Twelfth International Milton Symposium Strasbourg, 17‐21 June 2019* Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Tianjiao Li
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Harnessing Angels: The Pattern of Rhyme in Milton’s Nativity Ode Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Maggie Kilgour
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Milton’s Prolusions 4 and 5 as Cambridge Undergraduate Disputation Orations: Sources and Contexts* Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Robert Dulgarian
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The Poetics of Scriptural Quotation in the Divorce Tracts Milton Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Peter Auger
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