Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0005
J. A. Templanza
{"title":"“The First and Wisest of Them All”","authors":"J. A. Templanza","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Focuses on the episode in book four in which Satan tempts Jesus with the glories of the classical tradition of learning symbolized by Athens. The rejection of Athens should be seen as “an ironic response to the question of what true and redemptive knowledge is.” The poem implicitly rejects a “hermeneutics of validity” for authentic thinking. The Son’s knowledge is inseparable from its expression.","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130348248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0002
Sharon Achinstein
{"title":"High Enterprise","authors":"Sharon Achinstein","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In the course of his research for the divorce tracts “Milton became a modern sort of scholar” as his scholarship changed and developed. Although in the divorce tracts themselves “Milton adheres mostly to Biblical and legal interpretation,” his scholarship “uses up to date methodologies of Biblical philology and reaches across sectarian divides.”","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130193011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0008
Russell Hugh McConnell
{"title":"God’s Grammar","authors":"Russell Hugh McConnell","doi":"10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954811.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Milton’s confidence in his powers of poetic sublimity seemingly falters when rendering divine speech. Evidently “in order to adequately discuss the transcendent quality of divinity, Milton’s grammar [particularly regarding verb tenses] must become strange or go (artfully and deliberately) awry.”","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115639211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-03-20DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0003
Sam Hushagen
{"title":"Typology and Milton’s Masterplot","authors":"Sam Hushagen","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"“In Paradise Lost the typological view of history yields progressive politics.” Drawing on theorists of typology ranging from Coleridge to Auerbach, to Gordon Teskey and Jacques Monod, Hushagen finds Miltonic typology to be “historical and teleonomic rather than transcendent or anagogic: his figures exhibit ‘a purpose or project’ but without a final cause or ultimate fulfillment that would supersede them.”","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126973093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-03-20DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0012
E. Jones
{"title":"Political Diplomacy, Personal Conviction, and the Fraught Nature of Milton’s Letters of State","authors":"E. Jones","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Discusses the considerable challenges facing the editors of the letters of state for the Clarendon Complete Works. These include the difficulty of ascertaining the degree of Milton’s authorship of state letters which were subject to revision by other agents of the Commonwealth, a problem only partially remedied by scholars’ ability to distinguish Milton’s Latin from that of other government employees. The discovery of additional manuscript collections unknown to earlier editors provides additional challenges, as does the fact that the final published versions of the letters often revise and alter Milton’s Latin. It is dangerous to assume that Milton’s own political convictions are substantially reflected in the state letters","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123885869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-03-20DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVHN09XP.13
E. Stelzer
{"title":"Euphrasy, Rue, Polysemy, and Repairing the Ruins","authors":"E. Stelzer","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVHN09XP.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVHN09XP.13","url":null,"abstract":"Examines the euphrasy and rue which Michael applies to Adam’s eyes in book 11 of Paradise Lost, which have been variously glossed by editors of the poem. In medieval and early modern herbals euphrasy was associated with joy or cheerfulness in contrast to rue’s association with sorrow, reinforcing the poem’s “ethical message of tempering joy with sorrow,” which “accords with other exhortations toward moderation” in Paradise Lost. Euphrasy was also, thanks to false etymology, associated with pleasing eloquence and poetry, allowing Milton an occasion for wordplay. Noting that Adam “does not always judge or interpret the visions [shown to him in books 11 and 12] correctly,” Stelzer suggests that “the remedy Michael administers in book 11 is temporary and imperfect, albeit extraordinary.”","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114861996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholarly MiltonPub Date : 2019-03-20DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0007
E. Wilson
{"title":"Revisiting Milton’s (Logical) God: Empson 2018","authors":"E. Wilson","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781942954811.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Draws on Milton’s Artis Plenior Logicae (1672) to read the logic of his God, arguing “that the poem is good not primarily because it makes God either good or bad,” pace Empson, “but because it lays bare the cosmic structure to which we are all subject.” In this structure “God will be justified, because [the cosmic structure] is his own creation; yet that justification does not have to make him good or kind within human definitions of those terms.” Ultimately “Paradise Lost is good because God is bad and justified at the same time.”","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127777646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Devil as Teacher in Paradise Lost","authors":"J. Macdonald","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVHN09XP.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVHN09XP.7","url":null,"abstract":"A consideration of Satan as a kind of teacher reveals Milton’s increasing pessimism regarding the function of education. Milton follows the 6th century biblical poem De Spiritualis Historiae Gestis by Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus in “framing the temptation of Eve as a diabolic parody of heavenly pedagogy.” Eve falls “through a rigorous but erroneous logical analysis of her situation.” Transcendent general principles rather than inductive particular data become the basis of knowledge. Gone is the optimism about the value of experience in education and the confidence in the inevitable victory of truth over falsehood expressed by Milton in the 1640s.","PeriodicalId":170549,"journal":{"name":"Scholarly Milton","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124649160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}