Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sewanee Review, 1897, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Journal
When he left Cambridge the young student betook him self to his father's residence at Horton in Buckinghamshire. Although he had criticised the administration of the uni versity, he was pressed to take a fellowship, but that would have meant practically taking orders and, while such had once been his intention, he felt that he could not conscien tiously pursue the latter course. Theological difficulties do not seem to have beset him, for he subscribed the Articles and his Arian proclivities were a matter of later years. It was at the organization of the church then controlled by Land, who was fostering to the best of his abilities the high church reaction that the Puritan idealist looked askance. If Milton had continued at Cambridge he would have been the centre of many an academic dispute; it is impossible to say what would have happened if he had entered the church in any active way and been brought into personal contact with Laud. The genius of Boswell would have failed to do jus tice to that encounter; it would have needed a Shakspere.
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