TY - BOOK AU - Martin,Catherine Gimelli TI - Milton among the Puritans: The case for historical revisionism SN - 9781409408567 U1 - 821.4 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England , Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Milton, John, KW - Christian poetry, English KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Carlyle's ghost -- A brief history of the "Puritan revolution" -- Milton among the Puritans -- Vocation, prophecy, and secular reform in the early poems and prose -- The humanist ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics of Milton's Spenserian masque -- Mid-century debates on law, religion, rhetoric, education, and science -- The secular cosmology and anthropology of Milton's civilized Eden -- The neoclassical poetics of Paradise regained -- The classical republican experience of defeat in Samson agonistes -- Milton and the early development of toleration in England ER -