Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his
republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime. In
his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his
career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of
Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three varieties of liberty
without whichcivilized life is scarcely possible, namely
ecclesiastical liberty, domestic or personal liberty, and civil
liberty'. In retrospect he was able to find in his earlier writings
a systematic exposition of the grounds of freedom, and a commitment
to expanding its domain through publication and polemic. Taking
initiative from both the history of political thought and
historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive
from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the
conditions of liberty in Milton's writings, and the contested
development of his republicanism, through his career as a civil
servant and prose writer, through his great poems, to his
posthumous reputation and the appropriation of his works; and they
extend laterally to typologies of liberty, the realm of law,
prosody, and religious faith and persecution.Winner of the 2002
Irene Samuel Prize for best composite work onMilton. The
contributors are: THOMAS CORNS, JOHN CREASER, MARTIN DZELZAINIS,
KATSUHIRO ENGETSU, STEPEHN FALLON, BARBARA LEWALSKI, JANEL MUELLER,
CHRISTOPHER ORCHARD, GRAHAM PARRY, JOAD RAYMOND, JOHN RUMRICH,
QUENTIN SKINNER, ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN.GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of
English, University of York; JOAD RAYMOND lectures in the School of
English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
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