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The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume XI

Manuscript Writings

William Poole editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:14th Aug '19

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This is the first edition to collect together Milton's non-poetic manuscript writings. It is also the first edition of Milton's Commonplace Book manuscript to provide both the original text and a full translation and commentary. Additional sections furnish editions of Milton's draft ideas for dramas from the Trinity College manuscript, as well as his surviving presentation inscriptions. Full biobibliographies and indexes are also provided. This edition is an essential resource for any scholar wishing to understand the development of Milton's thought as assisted by or reflected in his reading.

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. * Jason A. Kerr, Milton Quarterly *

ISBN: 9780199585229

Dimensions: 221mm x 144mm x 32mm

Weight: 698g

496 pages