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Selected prose

In this selection of John 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.
Print Book, English, 1985
New and rev. ed View all formats and editions
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1985
462, [1] pages ; 19 cm
9780826204844, 0826204848
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An outline of Milton's life
Introduction: Milton in the seventeenth century
I. Milton on Milton : From The reason of church-government (1642) ; From An apology for Smectymnuus (1642) ; From Pro populo anglicano defensio secunda (1654)
II. The major premises : Of Reformation touching church-discipline (1641) [condensed] ; The Doctrine of discipline of divorce (1643; revised 1644) [condensed] ; Of education (1644) ; Areopagitica (1644) ; The tenure of kings and magistrates (1649) ; A treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes (1659) ; The readie and easie way to establish a free commonwealth (1660) ; De doctrina christiana (discovered 1823, first published 1825) [extracts]
III. Extracts, mainly on literature : Appendix: Two early biographies
John Aubrey, John Milton (1681) ; Edward Phillips, The life of Mr. John Milton (1694)