Seventy-Eight Ways of Looking at John Milton

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The Reception of C. S. Lewis’sA Preface toParadise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015

“…Just as Lewis’s Milton of clear meanings and neatly resolvable tensions has given way to the Milton of the New Milton Critics (at least, from 2000‐15 in PPL’s reception), so has Lewis’s orthodox Milton given way to the more heterodox Milton of the New Milton Critics—and, indeed, of just about everyone else. No less than seven scholars from 2010‐15 recognize Lewis as an interpreter of Milton who takes his theology to be, for the most part, orthodox: namely, Gordon Campbell and Thomas Corns (2010, 200), Martin Evans (2010, 145), Tobias Gregory (2012, 550), Elizabeth Sauer (2012, 120), John Leonard (2013, 2: 481), and William Kolbrener (2014, 205). But as, for example, Gregory points out: “Few experts would now agree with C. S. Lewis that Milton’s theology belongs to the ‘great central tradition’ of Christian thought” (550, quoting PPL 92).…”