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The New England Milton : literary reception and cultural authority in the early republic

This text examines the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists and demonstrates that his reception was a function of their response as members of New England elite to older and broader socio-political tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent modernisation.
Print Book, English, ©1992
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©1992