The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the
writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially
Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret
Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by
both groups was a function of their response as members of the New
England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in
Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For
Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were
themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of
authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions
in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of
Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the
vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the
ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan
past.
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