Edward Jones

author and editor of "Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642"

November 4, 2015

Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English and the editor of the Milton Quarterly. He is completing an edition of Milton's state papers for the Clarendon Complete Works of John Milton from Oxford University Press and the General Editor of a three volume Milton Encyclopedia recently commissioned by Wiley Blackwell.

The experimental and diverse writings of John Milton's early career offer tantalizing evidence of a precocious and steadily ripening author.The essays in this volume seek to fill a scholarly void regarding his Latin and English writing. They reject the idea of a linear development in favour of achievement of various kinds, unequal in merit, and not predicated upon maturation over time. The early writing is frequently occasional, resulting from religious holidays, family celebrations, and the deaths of family members and personal friends. Such occasions challenge the argument for the young author's uniform progress.

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Last Updated: 4 November 2015