Complete Works of John Milton: Volume XI - Manuscript Writings

List of contents

• Part I: The Commonplace Book


• Part II: Ideas for Dramas from the Trinity College Manuscript


• Part III: Exempla of Printed Works by Milton with Presentation Inscriptions


• Appendix: The Theme on Early Rising Attributed to Milton

About the author

William Poole was born and educated in St Andrews, and then at New College and Linacre College, Oxford, from 1995 to 2000. He was then Research Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, and returned in 2004 to New College as a Tutorial Fellow in English. He is also the Fellow Librarian. His research lies in early modern literary, intellectual, and scientific history, and he has strong interests in bibliography, palaeography, and the history of libraries.

Summary

This is the first edition to collect Milton's non-poetic manuscript writings, and the first edition of Milton's Commonplace Book manuscript to provide both the original text and a full translation and commentary. It is an essential resource for any scholar interested in the development of Milton's thought as assisted by or reflected in his reading.

Additional text

This volume is a consummate work of scholarship and a masterly contribution to the Oxford Milton. It provides everything that a narrowly focused Miltonist might wish for, but it also sees these materials as more than fodder for footnotes to Milton's published writings by locating Milton in the broader world of seventeenth-century scholarship, librarianship, and traffic in books...It is well worth adding to personal or institutional libraries.

Product details

• Authors: William (New College Poole
• Assisted by: William Poole (Editor), Poole William (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2019
• EAN: 9780199585229
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958522-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: The Complete Works of John Milton
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets