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“... of its successor, which dug in Cobham, where he lived with his family. His theory of digging was no more consistent than his religion. In the tracts explaining his actions, which sketched an imagined community based on the abolition of individual possessions, money and exchange, he derived general principles from the primitive Christian idea that the earth ...”

“... republicanism in recent years might be thought to have stimulated interest in Milton, but here Thomas Corns, editor of A Companion to Milton, sounds a warning note. This collection of essays, he writes, appears at a time when Milton’s standing with a wide readership appears ‘altogether more insecure’. In the US students prefer to study ...”

“... In​ their groundbreaking biography, published a decade ago, Thomas Corns and Gordon Campbell argued that the young John Milton was not, as he has often been portrayed, a born radical. Instead, they argued, before 1637 the young Milton was politically and religiously conservative, a member of the Church of England who supported the High Church reforms carried out by William Laud, the archbishop of Canterbury ...”

“... he fell out with almost every editor and proprietor who employed him, and borrowed money he had no hope of repaying. His criticism was notable for savage attacks made on contemporaries, but when challenged he often denied writing them. He accused Longfellow and others of plagiarism, yet himself lifted chunks of prose from journals and ...”

“... the better’ for the loss of his leg – ‘Consider, I can have neither sprain nor gout, have no fear of corns or that another man should kick my shins … To be sure, I am a little awkward at running but then, to make amends, I’ll hop with any man in town’ – is at once absurd and defiantly courageous. For roughly ...”