The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton—the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings?

How did authors, including Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Nashe and Cavendish, respond to this sense of the book as patched, transient, flawed, and palimpsestic?

Containing an Answer to that book entitled, The Rule of the Law under the Gospel, &c., which book set forth by Dr. Taylor is showed to be full of scandal and danger, as it was sent to the said Doctor a little before his death, By ROBERT ...

Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde and Woolf.