Thomas Festa is Assistant Professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essays have appeared in Milton Studies, English Language Notes,Reformation, the John Donne Journal, and The OxfordEncyclopedia of British Literature.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Repairing the Ruins; Chapter 2 Milton and the Hebraic Pedagogue of the Divorce Tracts; Chapter 3 The English Revolution and Heroic Education; Chapter 4 The Inward Archives of Paradise Lost; Chapter 5 Coda;

"In The End of Learning: Milton and Education, Thomas Festa offers an impressively learned exploration of the meaning of education as theme, practice, and motive in Milton’s poetry and prose…Festa’s book represents a critically important contribution to our understanding of Milton’s poetry and what it means to historicize poetic education." -- Julian Koslow, Virginia Tech University, Modern Philology

Thomas Festa is Assistant Professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essays have appeared in Milton Studies, English Language Notes,Reformation, the John Donne Journal, and The OxfordEncyclopedia of British Literature.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Repairing the Ruins; Chapter 2 Milton and the Hebraic Pedagogue of the Divorce Tracts; Chapter 3 The English Revolution and Heroic Education; Chapter 4 The Inward Archives of Paradise Lost; Chapter 5 Coda;

"In The End of Learning: Milton and Education, Thomas Festa offers an impressively learned exploration of the meaning of education as theme, practice, and motive in Milton’s poetry and prose…Festa’s book represents a critically important contribution to our understanding of Milton’s poetry and what it means to historicize poetic education." -- Julian Koslow, Virginia Tech University, Modern Philology

Thomas Festa is Assistant Professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essays have appeared in Milton Studies, English Language Notes,Reformation, the John Donne Journal, and The OxfordEncyclopedia of British Literature.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Repairing the Ruins; Chapter 2 Milton and the Hebraic Pedagogue of the Divorce Tracts; Chapter 3 The English Revolution and Heroic Education; Chapter 4 The Inward Archives of Paradise Lost; Chapter 5 Coda;

"In The End of Learning: Milton and Education, Thomas Festa offers an impressively learned exploration of the meaning of education as theme, practice, and motive in Milton’s poetry and prose…Festa’s book represents a critically important contribution to our understanding of Milton’s poetry and what it means to historicize poetic education." -- Julian Koslow, Virginia Tech University, Modern Philology