The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

Notes to Chapter 1 119 Defensio Secunda (CPW IV.1, 655). The claim is repeated by Edward Phillips and John Aubrey (EL 7, 74). 12 ...

Notes to Chapter 1 late-year publications. The text is translated in CPW IV.2, 889–961; the copy in BL (599.a.22) identifies Joh ...

Notes to Chapter 1 a visit from John Dury on November 18 “in a really bad storm, so as to be so much the more secret and unrecog ...

Notes to Chapter 1 pleas’d him well anough when he had read it; onely he desir’d that where the two marks be on the margent of t ...

Notes to Chapter 1 174 Pages 363–4. The second edition also informs the incredulous just where to find Pamela’s prayer in the Ar ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Rous,” and some entries in the Commonplace Book; very likely he did a good deal of transcribing for Milton in ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Tuscany the following day. Miller, Anglo-Dutch Negotiations, 196–269 reprints the Eng- lish Declaration and t ...

Notes to Chapter 1 25 The ambassadors reaffirmed their position on September 21, and the council responded curtly (October 5) th ...

Notes to Chapter 1 38 For Williams’s association with Vane see Masson, IV, 395. In a letter to the City of Providence Williams s ...

Notes to Chapter 1 46 See E. A. J. Honigmann, ed., Milton’s Sonnets (London, 1966), 147. The phrase is biblical in origin: “For ...

Notes to Chapter 1 French (LR III, 242–3). Du Moulin also admitted authorship in his Replie to a Person of Honour (Cambridge, 16 ...

Notes to Chapter 1 71 See Dayton Haskin, Milton’s Burden of Interpretation (Philadelphia, 1994), for a nuanced argument locating ...

Notes to Chapter 1 84 See chapter 7, p. 199, and note 5. 85 Masson, V, 230–5. Robert Boyle, the experimental chemist, was an act ...

Notes to Chapter 1 123, 276–7. The arguments of Doctrine and Discipline were attacked by Henry Hammond in A Letter of Resolution ...

Notes to Chapter 1 fairs directly into his own hands and Thurloe, who acted as a foreign minister, tended not to record which se ...

Notes to Chapter 1 labors and human action, even the greatest.” Milton also revises Fairfax’s motives for retirement, which stem ...

Notes to Chapter 1 141 See Douglas Stewart, “Speaking to the World: The Ad Hominem Logic of Milton’s Polemics,” The Seventeenth ...

Notes to Chapter 1 conspiracy charges and claimed he had not written but merely copied the poem (Masson, V, 163–4). 2 For Vlacq’ ...

Notes to Chapter 1 Phillippe Diodati, nephew of John Diodati and one of the ministers charged to plead the case against More at ...

Notes to Chapter 1 8, p. 251), but by the Blasphemy Act of 1648 it would warrant the death penalty; as a repeat offender he woul ...