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David Ainsworth, Spiritual Reading in Milton's Eikonoklastes
This essay argues that Milton's Eikonoklastes succeeds as an educative polemic, though not as a piece of political propaganda. In Eikonoklastes, Milton advances a strenuous and suspicious mode of reading Charles I, which seeks variance between the king's words and his deeds. Furthermore, Milton includes his readers in the process of demolishing Eikon Basilike. This essay examines Milton's process of spiritual reading and argues that Eikonoklastes attacks the very idea of uncritical reading. Milton successfully presents a critical process guided by the spirit within as a preferable alternative to the unquestioning acceptance of a comforting civil and spiritual servility.
Roberta Albrecht, Alchemical Augmentation and Primordial Fire in Donne's "The Dissolution"
Jay Arnold Levine's interpretation of "The Dissolution" is still among the best, especially as it treats the purpose of alchemy in the poem. He argues that Donne's theme of impotence defines an opus gone awry, proving the problem of the poem as a case of excessive...
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