Milton and Heresy

Download or read book Milton and Heresy written by Stephen B. Dobranski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton--who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy--should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This collection of essays investigates aspects of his works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, showing how Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed dogma and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.