David Williams is professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
"This beautifully written book is one that all scholars of Milton
will have no choice but to read and contend with." John Rogers,
Yale University
"Williams's elegant prose recreates for a modern reader the
excitement that must have been part of what politics was like in
that brief period when England was a republic in the middle of the
seventeenth century. Putting free will at the centre of Milton's
thought is a common enough tactic among Milton scholars, but here,
in Williams's meticulous account, it means revising his theology to
the point that God himself (or itself) becomes a Leveller. Heaven
is political." Times Literary Supplement
"[Milton's Leveller God] is a powerful corrective to the assumption
that Milton's thought and poetic practice was not significantly
shaped by the populist, progressive, and hopeful political thought
of the Levellers. John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments' supplied Milton
with the definitive print model of how readers can be gathered – in
their own acts of 'labourious gathering' – into a Leveller
community of equals." Studies in English Literature
"When Williams turns to the text of 'Paradise Lost,' no reader will
be unmoved, since he presents perhaps the most grandly revisionist
reading the poem since Fish's 'Surprised by Sin.'" Renaissance and
Reformation
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