University of Kentucky UKnowledge Literature in English, British Isles English Language and Literature 1957 Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony, and Physics Walter Clyde Curry Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at
[email protected]. Recommended Citation Curry, Walter Clyde, "Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony, and Physics" (1957). Literature in English, British Isles. 32. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/32 ONTOLOGY Milton's cosMoGONY and PHYSICS Walter Clyde Curry Published by the ONTOLOGY COSMOGONY and PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESS COPYRIGHT © 1957 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESS PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LffiRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 57-5833 Publication of this book is possible partly because of a grant from the Margaret Voorhies Haggin Trust Fund established in memory of her husband James Ben Ali Haggin To Kathryn, Josephine, and Ray This page intentionally left blank PREFACE An expression of my appreciation is due to the editors of the North Carolina Studies in Philology, the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Anglia, Philological Quarterly, and to the directors of the Vanderbilt University Press and the Stanford University Press for their very courteous leave to reprint here, with some revision and corrections, the subject matter of, respectively, Chapters I, II, IV, VI, III, and VII. I am also greatly indebted to the kindness of the following publishers: namely, to Houghton Miffiin Company for the privilege of quoting and basing arguments upon The Com plete Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by Harris Fran cis Fletcher; to Bums, Oates & Washboume for the right to quote and base arguments upon St.