The Fisher-Price God: A Call to Childlike Play
But let us ever praise him, and extol His bounty, following our delightful task To prune these growing Plants, and tend these Flow’rs, Which were it toilsome,…
Grace in the Garden: The Fall of Man and the British Pastoral Tradition
“An intermediate nature . . . prevents the universe falling into two separate halves.” —Plato, Symposium (203b). Almost from the beginning of when human beings began to…
Milton’s Socratic Rationalism
The title of this study, Milton's Socratic Rationalism, identifies a distinct mode of deliberative inquiry that is by design, as I will argue, an objective in the…
Review of Milton’s Socratic Rationalism
Milton’s Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost. David Oliver Davies. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2017. In a time where many literary critics…