Milton on Education: The Tractate of Education with Supplementary Extratcs from Other Wirtings of Milton.

Ainsworth, Oliver Morley (Ed.):

Published by New Haven: Yale University Press., 1928

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369 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Binding torn and scuffed several times. Pencyl entries on half-title page. Due to age in very good condition. - Content: Of Education is one of Milton s earlier pamphlets on reform in Church and State. It belongs, therefore, to the second great epoch in his life, which extended from the day in 1638 when his Continental tour was interrupted by the news of civil disturbance in England to his retirement from public service at the Restoration. During these years the poet was obliged by his sense of patriotic duty mostly to defer his chosen work of epic or dramatic composition, and to expend his talents in the defence of liberty, both religious and civil. The bulk of Milton s writings throughout this period is in prose. Some critics have lamented that he so long devoted himself to a species of composition in which, as he says, he had but the use of his left hand;1 but Verity not long since maintained that Milton improved as a poet by the experience of public; The prose works alone, although at times they have severed detraction, nevertheless contain so much of idealism and licence as to give to their author a very high place among English writers. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1170337

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Title: Milton on Education: The Tractate of ...

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press.

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Original brochure.

Condition: Sehr gut