Milton and the spiritual reader : reading and religion in seventeenth-century England
Milton and the Spiritual Reader examines spiritual reading in Areopagitica, Eikonoklastes, De Doctrina Christiana, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, comparing Miltonic spiritual reading with that of two of his Puritan contemporaries, Richard Baxter and George Fox.
IX, [1], 233 s. ; 23 cm.
9780415883900, 9780203926680, 9780415962513, 041596251X, 0415883903, 0203926684
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: "Thou art sufficient to judge aright:" Spiritual Reading in Areopagitica Chapter Two: Spiritual Reading in Milton’s Eikonoklastes Chapter Three: Godly Reading in Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana Chapter Four: "There plant eyes": Spiritual Interpretation and Reading in Paradise Lost Chapter Five: The Reader Within: Spiritual Interpretation in Paradise Regained Chapter Six: Baxter, Fox, Winstanley and Miltonic Spiritual Reading Notes BibliographyIndex