Scholarly Milton

Following the editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine the nature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and its implications for his prose and poetryscholarly Milton the writeras well as subsequent scholars historical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as an object of scholarly attentionscholarly Milton as at first an emergent and later an established academic discipline. The essays are particularly concerned with the topics of the ethical ends of learning, of Miltons attention to the trivium within the Renaissance humanist educational system, and the development of scholarly commentary on Miltons writings. Originally selected from the best essays presented at the 2015 Conference on John Milton in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the essays have been considerably revised and expanded for publication.