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

与文艺复兴文学的大多数其他领域相比，早期现代大学学生和学者创作的戏剧、诗歌和演讲相对较少。然而，在过去的几年里，几位教育和文学历史学家强调了高等教育的经历在塑造这些16世纪和17世纪作家创作的文学方面是多么重要。弥尔顿《序言》的这一新版本和译本将是对这一新兴研究领域的宝贵补充，并将基于对弥尔顿大学生涯的新研究，以及这些演讲在他当代学术、文学和社会环境中的地位。弥尔顿在剑桥读大学时在公立学校和大学里写并发表了《序曲》，是这位早期现代英国最著名的作家之一最不为人所知、最少有人阅读的作品之一。然而，通过查阅这本拉丁文文本和英译本，对《序言》的仔细研究将有助于学者们更好地了解弥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，并将清楚地说明弥尔顿在修辞和形式辩论方面的学术训练对他后来写作的影响。这本《序言》的新版和译本将使读者能够接触到弥尔顿形成的学术生涯，无论她是想阅读拉丁原文还是更喜欢英文翻译。标题和注释将提供新的传记和背景信息，以帮助读者理解弥尔顿的密集典故和经常令人费解的文本。对于弥尔顿专家，或者对英国早期现代大学、文艺复兴时期的教育课程、散文讽刺、少年时期、修辞、拉丁语的使用、17世纪思想史或作家的文学发展等主题感兴趣的读者来说，这本新版和翻译的《序言》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.