Volume 25, Number 4 · March 23, 1978
Milton, Satan, and Subversion
By Quentin Skinner
Milton and the English Revolution
by Christopher Hill
Viking, 541 pp., $20.00
Although Christopher Hill is undoubtedly one of England's leading historians, his reputation has recently suffered from a number of astonishingly vituperative and unfair attacks, the most intemperate of which was launched a couple of years ago by Professor J.H. Hexter in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement. Hill's many admirers will thus be all the more delighted that his new book, Milton and the English Revolution, is such a magisterial as well as exhilarating piece of scholarship. Hill has set himself a more exacting task than ever before: that of explaining the relationship between the social being and the consciousness of a great poet. And he has responded with his most ambitious book to date, a huge study crammed with fresh information and challenging arguments.
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