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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 121–149

“The pretious life-blood of a master spirit”

Thomas Hollis and the spirit and body of John Milton

| University of Zurich
Article outline
  • I.Service
  • II.Milton the matchless hero
  • III.The Poster-boy for Whig liberty
  • IV.Astonished by Milton’s Of Education
  • V.(Mis)reading Milton’s Areopagitica
  • VI.Hollis and Milton
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 16 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.07bev
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