Description
About the Author
David Williams is professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
Reviews
"This beautifully written book is one that all scholars of Milton will have no choice but to read and contend with." John Rogers, Yale University
"Williams's elegant prose recreates for a modern reader the excitement that must have been part of what politics was like in that brief period when England was a republic in the middle of the seventeenth century. Putting free will at the centre of Milton's thought is a common enough tactic among Milton scholars, but here, in Williams's meticulous account, it means revising his theology to the point that God himself (or itself) becomes a Leveller. Heaven is political." Times Literary Supplement
"[Milton's Leveller God] is a powerful corrective to the assumption that Milton's thought and poetic practice was not significantly shaped by the populist, progressive, and hopeful political thought of the Levellers. John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments' supplied Milton with the definitive print model of how readers can be gathered - in their own acts of 'labourious gathering' - into a Leveller community of equals." Studies in English Literature
"When Williams turns to the text of 'Paradise Lost,' no reader will be unmoved, since he presents perhaps the most grandly revisionist reading the poem since Fish's 'Surprised by Sin.'" Renaissance and Reformation
Book Information
ISBN 9780773550346
Author David Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 512
Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press