Description: In this wide-ranging study in classical reception and the history of ideas, Thomas Matthew Vozar shows how Milton's ideas of the sublime were informed by a deep understanding of Longinus and other ancient sources. The book also demonstrates how Longinus's ideas and writings were far more prevalent in early modern England than previously thought.
Review Quotes: "Let me take stock of the Miltonic topics that Vozar's work induced me to reassess: politics, cosmology, genre, religion. All this along with an edifying contribution to the intellectual history of the Longinian sublime and the enjoyable facticity of important archival and bibliographical findings. If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one." -- David Currell, Translation and Literature 33
"If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one." -- David Currell, Translation and Literature"If Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century is not a big book, it is nevertheless a grand one." -- David Currell, Translation and Literature"A must for advanced collections supporting teaching in humanism." -- Choice"Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century would be a good addition to most libraries for its focused attention on intellectual history, and literary analysis." -- Kathleen Burt, Classical Journal"I find the first chapter, which sets Longinus in a larger classical discourse about the majestic, the vehement, and the pathetic in rhetoric; the bibliographical account of copies of Longinus in English libraries before 1674; and the transcription of the Lansdowne Longinus to be the most valuable parts of this book." -- Blair Hoxby, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"A work of impressive philology and careful close and comparative reading, Vozar's monograph is an important contribution to the project of situating Milton's work more firmly in the broader contexts of its milieu and early reception." -- Robert Dulgarian, Milton Quarterly