Milton and the Ends of Time

In this 2003 text, a team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas.

In Milton and the Ends of Time, a team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas. This collection provides a broad range of approaches to Milton, including Milton and the visual arts, Milton's politics and theology, and Milton and science.

List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Those thoughts that wander through eternity' Juliet Cummins; Part I. Millennium: 1. Milton and the Millennium Barbara K. Lewalski; 2. Mede, Milton and More: Christ's College Millenarians Sarah Hutton; 3. Milton and Millenarianism: from the Nativity Ode to Paradise Regained Stella P. Revard; 4. Astronomical signs in Paradise Lost: Milton, Ophiucus and the Millennial debate Malabika Sarkar; 5. The Millennial moment: Milton vs 'Milton' William B. Hunter; 6. Confusion: the apocalypse, the millennium John T. Shawcross; Part II. Apocalypse: 7. John Martin's apocalyptic illustrations to Paradise Lost Beverley Sherry; 8. The enclosed garden and the apocalypse: immanent versus transcendent time in Milton and Marvell Catherine Gimelli Martin; 9. Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise Lost Juliet Cummins; 10. 'New heavens, new earth': apocalypse and the loss of sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost Claude N. Stulting, Jr; 11. The apocalypse in Paradise Regained Ken Simpson; 12. Inspiration and melancholy in Samson Agonistes Karen Edwards; Afterword: 'The Time is Come' David Loewenstein.