Selected ProseAlthough John Milton is best known for his poems such as Paradise Lost, his prose works, including Areopagitica, The Tenure of Kings, and The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, are important in their own right. In this selection of Milton's prose, C.A. Patrides presents the best possible texts of complete works in a format designed to enable students to understand Milton the thinker as well as to judge for themselves the achievements of Milton the artist in prose. First published in 1974, C.A. Patrides 's edition of Milton's prose has proved invaluable to students and scholars of Renaissance literature because it includes mostly the complete texts of Milton's prose works. Now, in this new and updated edition, Patrides has revised his introduction and his bibliography to reflect advances in Milton scholarship in the past ten years. In addition, the selections have been expanded to include passages from Milton's theological treatise De doctrina Christiana. |
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... reason would prove decisive with an apocalyptic persuasion that the Primal Reason could hardly fail to intervene on behalf of so just a cause as Milton's ( below , pp . 77 ff . ) . The tract ends with a pro- longed prayer that looks ...
... reason , It is probable , or rather certain , that every one who happ'ns to marry , hath not the calling , and ... reason so assasinated , is next in cruelty . 80. The parallel is with the miracles Christ performed even on the Sabbath ...
... Reason of Church - Government [ pp . 49 ff . ] ; The Defence of Smectimnuus [ pp . 61 ff . ] , at least the greatest part of them , but as I take it , all ; and some time after , one Sheet of Education , which he dedicated to Mr. Samuel ...
Contents
An Outline of Miltons Life | 11 |
From The Reason of ChurchGovernment 1642 | 49 |
From An Apology for Smectym nuus 1642 | 61 |
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