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Article: Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost.(Critical Essay)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
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- May 1, 2004
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Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost
William Walker
University of New South Wales
W.Walker@unsw.edu.au
Walker, William. "Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost". Early Modern Literary Studies 10.1 (May, 2004) 6.1-44
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Many critics and historians have recently come to agree that Milton's late poetry and prose are, among other things, expressions of his "republicanism." Though this term is used to mean different things, its meaning in this context is commonly taken to include a commitment to a way of thinking about politics that is displayed by figures in what, in light of the work of ...