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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.
Print Book, English, 2008
Routledge, London, 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
pages cm.
9780415962513, 041596251X
180470852
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