The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 believed that a carefully designed program of reading and study is precisely the means ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 the Doctrine, or not favoring his Accusers, soon dismiss’d him” (EL 24). A few weeks la ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 him, with a few thrusts at the licenser-cum-collaborator Caryl. Milton claims to have h ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 (740), a “Brain-worm” and “Country Hinde,” “a meer and arrant petti-fogger” (743), “a s ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 on different behalfs. One time above the rest, he [Milton] making the usual visit [to h ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 The title page indicates the work’s scope, and its intended support to the argu- ment o ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 his own, then with rigor upon the boundlesse riots of them who serv another Maister” (6 ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 unmeetnes” – much more serious than adultery – which always dissolves marriage. But a s ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 That man or wife who hates in wedloc, is perpetually unsociable, unpeacefull, or undute ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 schooling; and like a glad youth in wandring vacancy, may keep her hollidaies to joy an ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 tract draws upon and contributes to the lively controversy about religious toleration i ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 In this tract Milton does not speak of himself as a poet, but he embodies that role thr ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriar ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 extends that freedom to whatever enters into the mind, proposing an ethics based on con ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 Many there be that complain of divin Providence for suffering Adam to transgresse, fool ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 The long poetic peroration appeals in rousing terms to the patriotism and re- formist g ...

“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 imminent: his focus is on the transformations needed now. And, as always for Milton, th ...

“Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 7 “Service... Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 During 1645–9 Milton attended chiefly to his co ...

“Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 sight, that this was a likely moment to take up his poetic vocation again and, as he had recom ...

“Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 As Milton negotiated his move, the tide had turned against the king. The Battle of Naseby, Jun ...