Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Broken Revolution -- 2 A Literary Calling -- 3 Taking Sides -- 4 The Idea of a Free Christian Society -- 5 New Order -- 6 In Retreat -- 7 The Epics -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I …
"This book concentrates on Milton's religious vision and is more concerned with his prose than his poetry. He insisted that Protestantism was compatible with political liberty - that the two causes are complementary. This was a new vision. By treating all ecclesiastical authorit…
No writer is so grudgingly admired. He wrote great poetry, goes the received wisdom, but his creed was narrow, chilling, inhuman. He was a Puritan. This toxic label implies that he supported an authoritarian form of Protestantism that was intent on imposing itself upon the natio…