Hugh WILSON Milton and Wordsworth: Reflections on “L’Allegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Tintern Abbey” 19 Jean PIRONON The Five Senses as Origin of Milton’s Poetic Idiom in the University Exercises and the Minor Poems (1626–1637) 35 Trevor Laurence JOCKIMS Pastoral Lost and Regained in “Lycidas” 47 David V. URBAN Talents and Laborers: Parabolic Tension in Milton’s Sonnet 19 61

Part II The Prose

Matthew JORDAN The Bourgeois Utopianism of Milton’s Anti-Prelatical Tracts 75 James ROVIRA Milton’s Ontology of Books and Areopagitica 89 Antti TAHVANAINEN The Role of Rhetoric in the Political Thought of John Milton 97 Kemmer ANDERSON Those Tenured Tyrants: How Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Influenced Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 109 VIII Milton in France

Danièle FRISON Droits et Libertés dans The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates de John Milton 117 Yuko Kanakubo NORO On Milton’s Proposal for a “Communitas Libera” Reconsidered – from Defensio Prima, through The Readie and Easie Way, to Paradise Lost 131 Georgi VASILEV Philosophie et figures dualistes dans les pamphlets de John Milton 141

Part III The Great Poems 1. Paradise Lost Matt DOLLOFF Urania, Antidote to Tyranny 155 T. Ross LEASURE Spenser’s Diabolical Orator and Milton’s “Man of Hell” 167 Martin DAWES Adam’s Co-creation of Eve: Taking Liberties with Milton’s Ironic God 177 Virginie ORTEGA-TILLIER Qualités plastiques de l’évocation poétique & caractéristiques des illustrations du Paradis perdu de Milton 189 Luis Fernando Ferreira SÁ Notes on a Postcolonial Fall in Milton’s Paradise 201 Charlotte CLUTTERBUCK The Sinner’s View of God in the Invocations and Book III of Paradise Lost 211 Margaret Justice DEAN Martyrdom Reconsidered: Adam’s Profit from Abdiel’s Example 227 Antonella PIAZZA Milton and Galileo: The Astronomical Diet of Paradise Lost 237 Table of Contents IX

2. Paradise Regained Daniele BORGOGNI “Real or Allegoric I Discern Not”: Paradise Regained and the Problem of Representation in Early Modern England 249

3. Samson Agonistes Suvi MÄKELÄ “[E]xiled from light”: Beauty, the Senses and Freedom in Samson Agonistes 267 Sherry Lutz ZIVLEY and Chase HAMBLIN The Prosody of Samson Agonistes 279

Part IV French Perspectives Nicole BERRY John Milton, ou l’aigle blessé 303 Miriam Andrade MANSUR Milton and Derrida: Deconstructing Milton’s Paradise Lost Through a “Darkness Visible” Perspective 317 Marie-Dominique GARNIER From Dagon to Deleuze and Derrida: Samson Agonistes and Particle Poetics 329

Part V Milton’s Influence in Non-Anglophone Cultures Luis Fernando Ferreira SÁ Enjoined By Fate: Private and Public Miltons in a Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Play 347 Chia-Yin HUANG The Miltonic Personality: Milton as a Model of Liberty in China 357

List of Abstracts 369 List of Contributors 377