The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 studies he was “blissfully” pursuing to write several tracts, led by a strong sense of duty t ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 treatises, his rhetoric is mainly directed to moderate Puritans and especially mem- bers of p ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 poetics of satire that justifies vehement invective as a “sanctifi’d bitternesse” having prec ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 Filled with additions and interlineations, these pages offer a revealing insight into Milton’ ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 Newcastle on August 28, 1640 the royal forces were soon routed. The Scots occu- pied Newcastl ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 these events, first of all to God, and then to those to whom the people had en- trusted with ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 bourgeois anger over Charles’s hated levies. Harold Harefoot “exacting ship monie” is one amo ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 now gaining strength in England and pressing their demands for toleration. The anti-episcopal ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 less insists that the office of bishop derives from the apostles and that hierarchy was alway ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 opinion should thus idolize them” (535).^52 He also imagines himself as prophetic bard, singi ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 “petty-fog of witnesses” (648), “offalls and sweepings” (651). And the contrast between the t ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 scholarly Senecan moralist, Milton scoffs at his terse, antithetical, satiric sententiae, hea ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 conclusion remains unwritten since the fate of Root and Branch is still in doubt: “what was d ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 Almighty Father hath bequeath’d thee; for now the voice of thy Bride calls thee, and all crea ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 leaders: Denzil Hollis, Sir Arthur Haselrigg, John Pym, John Hampden, and William Strode. The ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 Ordinance giving parliament control of the armed forces, but Charles continued with plans to ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 the authorial self he presented in Reason of Church-governement. The Apology contin- ues fier ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 dangerously at the most eminent vices among the greatest persons,” citing Langland’s Piers Pl ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 Petition of December 11, 1640, which was offered, Milton claimed in Animadver- sions, by “gre ...

“Against... the Bishops” 1639–1642 centiousness he points proudly to his temperament and explains (as he did in Prolusion VI to ...