«demonstrates the diffusion of literary language into high politics...These moments exemplify not just the meticulous scholarship through which the editors this volume have situated these tracts anew, but the novel avenues for interpretation that they have opened up in doing so, surely the most important gauge of a new edition's success...This volume makes outstanding contributions to our local understanding of Milton'¢s political prose.»

Joe Moshenska, The Times Literary Supplement

«exemplifes the benefits of the readiness of literary critics to engage with historical scholarship [and] surpasses the corresponding portions of the Yale [edition of the texts] in scholarly exactness and judgement.»

Blair Worden, London Review of Books

«Through its introduction, headnotes, freshly edited texts, and elaborate endnotes, the volume synthesizes much of the bibliographical and historical work on Milton's English political prose writings that concern civil and religious liberty, republicanism, and the resistance of tyranny. It also adds additional scholarship on the European reception of Eikonoklastes, including collation of the French edition, and provides rich information about the circumstances, context, and subsequent print afterlife of these works.»

Milton Society of America Awards Committee

«This is the finest edition of these works that we have had or are likely to have. The care over producing totally trustworthy texts of these extraordinary writings is itself extraordinary...my abiding sense is one of awe at the scale of editorial concentration and gratitude, for, as the dust-jacket puts it, âtaken together [all the] features constitute the definitive edition of these texts for the twenty-first century.»

John Morrill, Milton Quarterly

«this edition deserves to be widely used»

Jason Peacey, English Historical Review