Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University. His many books include There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It’s a Good Thing, Too.

• Introduction I. The Miltonic Paradigm How Milton Works Milton's Aesthetic of Testimony Problem Solving in Comus Unblemished Form II. The Paradigm under the Pressure of Time, Interpretation, and Death Driving from the Letter: Truth and Indeterminacy in Milton's Areopagitica Wanting a Supplement: The Question of Interpretation in Milton's Early Prose Lycidas: A Poem Finally Anonymous With Mortal Voice: Milton Defends against the Muse III. The Counter-Paradigm The Temptation to Action The Temptation of Speech The Temptation of Plot The Temptation of Understanding The Temptation of Intelligibility IV. The Paradigm Reaffirmed (Almost) without Apology Gently Raised "On Other Surety None" Epilogue: The Temptation of History and Politics Notes Credits Index

How Milton Works is a dazzling, rigorous, and unutterably strange attempt to follow the great seventeenth-century poet along the perilous path that leads away from the temptations of history and politics and into the fair fields of eternal Truth. Why strange? Because the book depends upon a perfect congruence between the fathomless faith of John Milton and the fathomless skepticism of Stanley Fish.

Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University. His many books include There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It’s a Good Thing, Too.

• Introduction I. The Miltonic Paradigm How Milton Works Milton's Aesthetic of Testimony Problem Solving in Comus Unblemished Form II. The Paradigm under the Pressure of Time, Interpretation, and Death Driving from the Letter: Truth and Indeterminacy in Milton's Areopagitica Wanting a Supplement: The Question of Interpretation in Milton's Early Prose Lycidas: A Poem Finally Anonymous With Mortal Voice: Milton Defends against the Muse III. The Counter-Paradigm The Temptation to Action The Temptation of Speech The Temptation of Plot The Temptation of Understanding The Temptation of Intelligibility IV. The Paradigm Reaffirmed (Almost) without Apology Gently Raised "On Other Surety None" Epilogue: The Temptation of History and Politics Notes Credits Index

How Milton Works is a dazzling, rigorous, and unutterably strange attempt to follow the great seventeenth-century poet along the perilous path that leads away from the temptations of history and politics and into the fair fields of eternal Truth. Why strange? Because the book depends upon a perfect congruence between the fathomless faith of John Milton and the fathomless skepticism of Stanley Fish.

Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University. His many books include There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It’s a Good Thing, Too.

• Introduction I. The Miltonic Paradigm How Milton Works Milton's Aesthetic of Testimony Problem Solving in Comus Unblemished Form II. The Paradigm under the Pressure of Time, Interpretation, and Death Driving from the Letter: Truth and Indeterminacy in Milton's Areopagitica Wanting a Supplement: The Question of Interpretation in Milton's Early Prose Lycidas: A Poem Finally Anonymous With Mortal Voice: Milton Defends against the Muse III. The Counter-Paradigm The Temptation to Action The Temptation of Speech The Temptation of Plot The Temptation of Understanding The Temptation of Intelligibility IV. The Paradigm Reaffirmed (Almost) without Apology Gently Raised "On Other Surety None" Epilogue: The Temptation of History and Politics Notes Credits Index

How Milton Works is a dazzling, rigorous, and unutterably strange attempt to follow the great seventeenth-century poet along the perilous path that leads away from the temptations of history and politics and into the fair fields of eternal Truth. Why strange? Because the book depends upon a perfect congruence between the fathomless faith of John Milton and the fathomless skepticism of Stanley Fish.