Young Milton
The experimental and diverse writings of John Milton's early career offer tantalizing evidence of a precocious and steadily ripening author yet there has been no volume exclusively focused on his writing of the 1620s, 1630s, and the first years of the 1640s. Young Milton seeks to fill this scholarly void.
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This book fills part of the gap that has long existed between the most widely known poem of John Milton, Paradise Lost, and everything else he wrote (writing that fills 18 volumes). It focuses specifically on his other, shorter poetry rather than his two other mature works at the end of his career (Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes). Uniquely, the essays in this volume confine themselves to Milton's earlier career, before he published his first volume of poetry in 1645. The `young Milton', a student-poet writing experimenting in languages other than English, receives full attention, as does the post-graduate Milton, who contributes his most famous short poem in English, `Lycidas' to a Cambridge University memorial volume. The book also looks at the maturing man in several of the essays, one who writes an elegy in memory of his niece, and one who exchanges letters with arguably his closest friend Charles Diodati. In an important and overdue way, the contributors to this book evaluate the writing of the early career on its own merit and on its own terms.
