Carlyle's ghost -- A brief history of the "Puritan revolution" -- Milton among the Puritans -- Vocation, prophecy, and secular reform in the early poems and prose -- The humanist ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics of Milton's Spenserian masque -- Mid-century debates on law, religion, rhetoric, education, and science -- The secular cosmology and anthropology of Milton's civilized Eden -- The neoclassical poetics of Paradise regained -- The classical republican experience of defeat in Samson agonistes -- Milton and the early development of toleration in England.
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