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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Milton Quarterly.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 31 (1997) - vol. 34 (2000)Latest Articles: Milton QuarterlyTWOProject MUSE®Milton Quarterly1094-348X0026-4326Latest articles in Milton Quarterly. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Last Stages of Education: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
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The civil and scientific revolutions of seventeenth-century England propelled many upheavals in educational theory and practice, and fundamentally redefined the aims of educational institutions. Early Modern educational institutions saw large-scale changes in the make-up of the student population, which was increasingly a mixture of aristocrats, gentry, merchants, and artisans. While they formerly had been “fountains of the ministers of the gospel,” the universities found themselves training a diverse student population for a greater number of occupations, which included not only the standard offices of governors, clergy, lawyers, and medical practitioners but also those which had been previously relegated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/133/image/coversmallThe Last Stages of Education: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes2000-12-01text/htmlen-USThe Last Stages of Education: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes2000-12-012000TWOProject MUSE®803112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002000-12-01Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost (review)
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It is worth the price of the book just to find out how subtly words like experience or occult were used by people like Francis Bacon or Robert Boyle-and also by Milton. Edwards is also not content to let a word like charlatan go by without examination of a real Italian ciarlatàno, observed in the street by Samuel Purchas, a mountebank fooling people by his deceitful patter (ciàrla) and tricks that deceived the eye, in order to sell the equivalent of snake oil. Aha, you say, snake oil: isn’t that what Eve buys? Yes, that’s the point. Satan is indeed a charlatan who sells Eve the equivalent of snake oil-the forbidden fruit-in the process of practicing a combination of black magic, snake-oil salesmanship, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/133/image/coversmallMilton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost (review)2000-12-01text/htmlen-USMilton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost (review)2000-12-012000TWOProject MUSE®139312026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002000-12-01The Divine Right to Bear Arms
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Children of Ezekiel is a book destined to be frequently reviewed, partly because of its inherent interest and partly because Lieb has constructed it to involve so many sub-fields of literary and cultural studies: Miltonic prose and Paradise Lost, eighteenth- through twentieth-century histories of technology, and Israeli millennialism contribute to the first chapter alone, with seven more behind, including a detailed look at the eschatological and mystical underpinnings of the Nation of Islam. At the same time, though, the book also focuses quite narrowly on the “afterlife” of a potent image for humankind’s encounter with the power of God, the wheeled chariot of Ezekiel 1. From this combination of a minute
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In the past ten years, reading Paradise Lost aloud and entire has become an annual event at various places around the world and “Milton Marathons” are now regularly reported on the internet discussion group Milton-L. A marathon at the University of Otago in New Zealand has been organized since 1992 by John Hale, whose research interests include the orality of Paradise Lost. 1 This year’s event on 6 May, which I was invited to co-judge, was an adventurous reading of the poem, organized in teams competitively, with prizes for the best team and the best individual reader. The competitive edge did not detract from the enjoyment but rather enhanced it. The teams had rehearsed together and rejoiced in such names
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/133/image/coversmallParadise Lost "Made vocal"2000-12-01text/htmlen-USParadise Lost "Made vocal"2000-12-012000TWOProject MUSE®84872026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002000-12-01The Thirty-Three Days of Paradise Lost
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Nothing . . . seems so much to endanger the Scriptures, and to submit and render them obnoxious to censure and calumniation, as the appearance of Error in Chronology, or other limbs and numbers of Arithmetick: for, since Error is an approbation of false for true, or incertain for certain, the Author hath erred.
Only a few critics have focused their attention on the chronology of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Grant McColley (16–17), Gunnar Qvarnström (10–54), Alastair Fowler (26–28), and Galbraith Miller Crump (181) have suggested chronologies for the daily events of the poem’s story, but of these, only Qvarnström devotes more than three and a half pages to substantiating his claim. 1 Shawcross (Mortal Voice 145
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/133/image/coversmallThe Thirty-Three Days of Paradise Lost2000-12-01text/htmlen-USThe Thirty-Three Days of Paradise Lost2000-12-012000TWOProject MUSE®654662026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002000-12-01