{"product_id":"john-milton-prose-isbn-9781405129312","title":"John Milton Prose","description":"Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty.  This superbly annotated new publication is the most authoritative single-volume anthology yet of Milton's major prose works.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eUses Milton's original language, spelling and punctuation\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eFreshly and extensively annotated\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eNotes provide unrivalled contextual analysis as well as illuminating the wealth of Milton's allusions and references\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eWill appeal to a general readership as well as to scholars across the humanities\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNote on This Edition and Abbreviations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMILTON'S PROSE TEXTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Prolusions: 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProlusion VI 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProlusion VII 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eOf Reformation\u003c\/i\u003e 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eThe Reason of Church-Government Urg'd against Prelaty\u003c\/i\u003e (selections) 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eAn Apology Against a Pamphlet\u003c\/i\u003e (selections) 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eThe Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eOf Education\u003c\/i\u003e 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. \u003ci\u003eAreopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton\u003c\/i\u003e 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. \u003ci\u003eTetrachordon\u003c\/i\u003e (selections) 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \u003ci\u003eThe Tenure of Kings and Magistrates\u003c\/i\u003e 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eEikonoklastes\u003c\/i\u003e (selections) 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eA Second Defence of the English People\u003c\/i\u003e 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. \u003ci\u003eA Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes\u003c\/i\u003e 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \u003ci\u003eConsiderations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church\u003c\/i\u003e 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eThe Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. \u003ci\u003eOf True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, and Toleration\u003c\/i\u003e 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Selections from Milton's Private Letters 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. \u003ci\u003eDe Doctrina Christiana\u003c\/i\u003e (selections) 470\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Mr. John Milton by Edward Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e 558\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography 573\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“.…will ensure that Milton’s prose continues to challenge and reward the kind of active, discerning readership that Milton himself courted.”\u003cbr\u003e (\u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 July 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Milton's extraordinary prose, extensively represented in David Loewenstein's ambitious edition, has gained many new readers in recent years, and it may be true that some students, at least in British schools and universities, read \u003ci\u003eTenure of Kings and Magistrates\u003c\/i\u003e before, or even instead of, the great poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (June 14 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Loewenstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Helen C. White Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. His books include \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), which received the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award for Distinguished Book. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTreacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). He has co-edited \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMilton’s England\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). He is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRegarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose who explored, with great acuity and originality, his frequently dissenting and controversial views on religion, politics, and liberty. This new and extensively annotated edition of his major prose works presents them in their original language, spelling, and punctuation, and demonstrates Milton’s continued relevance. It shows why Milton’s rich, varied prose works are justly reckoned among his greatest achievements, analyzing such major topics as freedom of the press, religious toleration and liberty of conscience, gender, marriage, the dangers of tyranny, and the significance of political debate and dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe exhaustive notes compiled for this edition illuminate the complexities of the shifting contemporary political and religious contexts in which Milton wrote and published his major prose works, even as they elucidate the wealth of Milton’s biblical, classical, and topical allusions. Most crucially for contemporary readers, his prose writings address the meanings and consequences of different kinds of liberty: religious, political, domestic, and individual.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This excellent selection is what I have always wanted for my students: un-modernised texts very well edited and contextualised. Milton's seering radicalism, the extraordinary controlled freedom of his rhetoric, the engagement with the great issues of England's revolution, but also with universal themes of God, Man, liberty, accountability, are made accessible as never before.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Morrill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eDavid Loewenstein’s scrupulous edition offers a remarkably generous range of Milton’s prose works on religion, politics, and domestic issues. The Prefatory Notes to each work are a model of clarity and concision, and annotations are precise and informative. The volume will be a wonderful resource for Milton scholars, teachers, and students alike.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Knoppers\u003c\/b\u003e, Editor, Milton Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eRichly annotated and with a fine, purposeful introduction, this wholly new edition makes available ten major prose works by Milton in their entirety, together with generous selections from Milton's other tracts. No other edition allows the reader to appreciate so fully Milton's original engagement with concepts of political, religious, and domestic liberty. It is the best edition for teaching purposes and the general reader. Scholars too will appreciate the wealth of fresh annotations.\" \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThomas N. Corns\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Wales, Bangor\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the most ambitious one-volume edition of Milton’s prose to date, one that both invites the general reader who is curious about the author of  \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e,  and that also satisfies the needs of classrooms.  Readers will have at their fingertips works from across Milton’s writing career, with its wide range of occasions and styles.  We see the scrappy polemicist, the rhetorically powerful tyrannicide, the critic and participant in religious reform, a Milton who was always daring, witty and engaged.  With crisp prefatory introductions to each work, helpful annotations, and a generous introduction to the whole, there is no better guide to Milton’s prose treasures than this one.  I will be eager to assign this to students.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharon Achinstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Oxford\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989490942181,"sku":"NP9781405129312","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405129312.jpg?v=1761784317","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/john-milton-prose-isbn-9781405129312","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}