John Milton Prose

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.

“.…will ensure that Milton’s prose continues to challenge and reward the kind of active, discerning readership that Milton himself courted.”(Renaissance Quarterly, 1 July 2014)"Milton's extraordinary prose, extensively represented in David Loewenstein's ambitious edition, has gained many new readers in recent years, and it may be true that some students, at least in British schools and universities, read Tenure of Kings and Magistrates before, or even instead of, the great poetry."Times Literary Supplement (June 14 2013)

• Note on This Edition and Abbreviations viiiAcknowledgements ixList of Illustrations xChronology xiIntroduction xviMILTON'S PROSE TEXTS1. Prolusions: 1Prolusion VI 3Prolusion VII 132. Of Reformation 223. The Reason of Church-Government Urg'd against Prelaty (selections) 614. An Apology Against a Pamphlet (selections) 925. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1036. Of Education 1707. Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton 1818. Tetrachordon (selections) 2149. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 24310. Eikonoklastes (selections) 27511. A Second Defence of the English People 31912. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes 37713. Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church 39814. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth 42615. Of True Religion, Hæresie, Schism, and Toleration 44816. Selections from Milton's Private Letters 45917. De Doctrina Christiana (selections) 47018. The Life of Mr. John Milton by Edward Phillips 558Select Bibliography 573