A new edition and translation of John Milton's 'Prolusions'

与文艺复兴时期的其他文学领域相比，早期现代大学的学生和学者创作的戏剧、诗歌和演讲相对被忽视。然而，在过去的几年里，一些教育和文学历史学家强调，高等教育的经历在塑造这些16世纪和17世纪作家的文学作品方面是多么重要。这个新的版本和翻译的米尔顿的'Prolusions'将是一个有价值的除了这个新兴的研究领域，并将基于新的研究进行到米尔顿的大学生涯和他的当代学术，文学和社会环境中的这些演讲的地方。米尔顿在剑桥读书时在公立学校和大学里写的《序曲》是现代早期英国最著名作家之一最不为人知和最少被人阅读的作品之一。然而，通过查阅这本拉丁文和英文译本，对《序言》进行仔细研究，将有助于学者们更好地理解米尔顿的文学和辩论技巧是如何在他的大学生涯中发展起来的，并将清楚地说明米尔顿在修辞和正式辩论方面的学术训练对他后来的写作产生的影响。这个新版本和翻译的“序言”将使读者进入米尔顿的形成学术生涯，无论她想读原文拉丁文或更舒适的英文翻译。头注和注释将提供新的传记和上下文信息，以帮助读者理解米尔顿的密集典故和经常深奥的文本。对于米尔顿的专家，或对英国早期现代大学，文艺复兴时期的教育课程，散文讽刺，juvenilia，修辞学，拉丁语的使用，十七世纪的思想史，或作者的文学发展等主题感兴趣的读者，这个新版本和翻译的“序幕”将是有价值的和及时的。

Compared with most other areas of Renaissance literature, the plays, poems and orations students and scholars composed at the early modern universities have been relatively neglected. However, over the last few years several educational and literary historians have emphasized how important the experience of higher education was in shaping the literature that these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors produced. This new edition and translation of Milton's 'Prolusions' will be a valuable addition to this burgeoning field of research, and will be based on new research conducted into Milton's university career and the place of these speeches within his contemporary academic, literary and social milieu. The 'Prolusions', which Milton wrote and delivered in the Public Schools and in College while he was a student at Cambridge, are among the least known and least read works of one of the most celebrated writers of early modern England. Yet a close study of the 'Prolusions', made possible through consulting this Latin text and English translation, will help scholars better understand how Milton's literary and argumentative technique developed during his university career, and will clearly illustrate the impact Milton's academic training in rhetoric and formal disputation had on his later writing. This new edition and translation of the 'Prolusions' will give the reader access to Milton's formative academic career, whether she wants to read the original Latin text or is more comfortable with the English translation. The headnote and annotation will offer new biographical and contextual information to assist the reader's understanding of Milton's densely allusive and frequently recondite text. For the Milton specialist, or for the reader interested in such topics as the early modern universities in England, Renaissance educational curricula, prose satire, juvenilia, rhetoric, the use of Latin, seventeenth-century intellectual history, or an author's literary development, this new edition and translation of the 'Prolusions' will be both valuable and timely.