Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination
and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose,
applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious
and political liberty. This superbly annotated new
publication is the most authoritative single-volume anthology yet
of Milton’s major prose works.
* Uses Milton’s original language, spelling and
punctuation
* Freshly and extensively annotated
* Notes provide unrivalled contextual analysis as well as
illuminating the wealth of Milton’s allusions and references
* Will appeal to a general readership as well as to scholars
across the humanities
Table of Content
Note on This Edition and Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
Chronology xi
Introduction xvi
MILTON’S PROSE TEXTS
1. Prolusions: 1
Prolusion VI 3
Prolusion VII 13
2. Of Reformation 22
3. The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty
(selections) 61
4. An Apology Against a Pamphlet (selections) 92
5. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 103
6. Of Education 170
7. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton 181
8. Tetrachordon (selections) 214
9. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 243
10. Eikonoklastes (selections) 275
11. A Second Defence of the English People 319
12. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes
377
13. Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove
Hirelings out of the Church 398
14. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free
Commonwealth 426
15. Of True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, and
Toleration 448
16. Selections from Milton’s Private Letters 459
17. De Doctrina Christiana (selections) 470
18. The Life of Mr. John Milton by Edward Phillips
558
Select Bibliography 573
About the author
David Loewenstein is Helen C. White Professor of English
and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA. His books include Representing Revolution in Milton
and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical
Puritanism (2001), which received the Milton Society of
America’s James Holly Hanford Award for Distinguished
Book. He is the author of Treacherous Faith: The Specter of
Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2013).
He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Early Modern English
Literature (2002), Early Modern Nationalism and
Milton’s England (2008), and The Complete Works of
Gerrard Winstanley (2009). He is an Honored Scholar of the
Milton Society of America.
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