Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of contributors; A note on citations and abbreviations; Introduction: 'labouring the word' David Loewenstein and James Grantham Turner; 1. Embodying glory: the apocalyptic strain in Milton's Of Reformation Janel Mueller; 2. Wanting a supplement: the question of interpretation in Milton's early prose Stanley Fish; 3. The metaphysics of Milton's divorce tracts Stephen M. Fallon; 4. No meer amatorious novel? Annabel Patterson; 5. Areopagitica: voicing contexts, 1643–5 Nigel Smith; 6. Milton's Observations upon the Articles of Peace: Ireland under English eyes Thomas N. Corns; 7. Milton's iconoclastic truth Lana Cable; 8. 'Suffering for Truths sake': Milton and martyrdom John R. Knott Jr; 9. Milton and the poetics of defense David Loewenstein; 10. Elective poetics and Milton's prose: A Treatise of Civil Power and Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church Susanne Woods; 11. Milton's The Readie and Easie Way and the English jeremiad Laura Lunger Knoppers; 12. Citation, authority, and De Doctrina Christiana Regina M. Schwartz; 13. The History of Britain and its Restoration audience Gary D. Hamilton; 14. The poetics of engagement James Grantham Turner; Index.

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This book explores the interconnections between Milton's politics, poetics and prose writings.