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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Milton and the Unity of Knowledge: "True Wisdom" or "Children Gathering Pebbles on the Shore"

FAIN: FT-13763-78

Mary Jane M. Doherty
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)

To assess the inventive art of reading and integrated thinking as demonstrated in Milton's epics, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. PI will make a general bibliographical survey of the problem of knowledge, will examine primary materials at Newberry, Boston Public, Folger, and other libraries, and will then analyze the epics with a view towards exposing Milton's understanding of the multiplicity and the unity of knowledge and his prescription for the problem of the diversification of knowledge.