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Zusatztext Ainsworth is concerned with the strategies that 17th-century readers employed in their search for religious understanding. A solid contribution to Milton studies. Recommended. -- B. E. Brandt! South Dakota State University! Choice"?Ainsworth makes an important contribution to our understanding of the religious imperative of Milton's prose and poetry?Deeply engaged with his material! Ainsworth practices the kind of reading that he elucidates in Milton's works. His intense! concentrated focus on spiritual reading never wavers! and his precise distinctions ensure that readers will be vigorously exercised." -- Ken Simpson! Renaissance Quarterly"Ainsworth is an astute reader of Milton"-- Studies in English Literature! 1500-1900! Vol. 49! No. 1! 2009 Informationen zum Autor David Ainsworth is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He received his degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Klappentext Milton and the Spiritual Reader examines spiritual reading in Areopagitica, Eikonoklastes, De Doctrina Christiana, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, comparing Miltonic spiritual reading with that of two of his Puritan contemporaries, Richard Baxter and George Fox. Zusammenfassung Milton and the Spiritual Reader examines spiritual reading in Areopagitica, Eikonoklastes, De Doctrina Christiana, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained, comparing Miltonic spiritual reading with that of two of his Puritan contemporaries, Richard Baxter and George Fox. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: "Thou art sufficient to judge aright:" Spiritual Reading in Areopagitica Chapter Two: Spiritual Reading in Milton's Eikonoklastes Chapter Three: Godly Reading in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana Chapter Four: "There plant eyes": Spiritual Interpretation and Reading in Paradise Lost Chapter Five: The Reader Within: Spiritual Interpretation in Paradise Regained Chapter Six: Baxter, Fox, Winstanley and Miltonic Spiritual Reading Notes Bibliography Index ...