John Milton's antiprelatical tracts are a series of five political pamphlets that attack the episcopal form of church leadership. During Bishops' Wars...
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Animadversions (category Tracts (literature))
the third of John Milton's antiprelatical tracts, in the form of a response to the works and claims of Bishop Joseph Hall. The tract was published in July...
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of Milton's previous works, and, in turn, they sold well even though the content of the works were not received positively. The antiprelatical tracts were...
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and the religious hierarchy. Milton joined in on a pamphlet war that soon followed and produced his antiprelatical tracts. These pamphlets emphasize the...
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on antiprelatical matters, and Young encouraged Milton to write his first prose work, Of Reformation (1641), to aid in their cause. In all, Milton's antiprelatical...
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Samson Agonistes (category Poetry by John Milton)
the champion") is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regained in 1671, as the title page of that...
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Apology for Smectymnuus (category Tracts (literature))
Apology for a Pamphlet, was published by John Milton in April 1642. It was the final of his antiprelatical tracts which criticize the structure of the Church...
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unpublished. Milton's main creative outlet, however, was composing music. Twenty musical compositions are verified as belonging to Milton. All but one...
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The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty (category Works by John Milton)
Milton published The Reason for Church-Government Urged against Prelaty in January/February 1642. The tract was the fourth of his five antiprelatical...
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said to have been taken chiefly from notes prepared by Milton. John Aubrey states that all Milton's papers came into Phillips's hands, and in 1694 he published...
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