[Milton-L] Milton in The Watchtower

[Patrick Scott]

I am happy to add that the engraving from the first edition of De
Doctrina in this article came from the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection
here (tho we did not ask for a credit line, tis must be the most
widely-circulated image yet from this collection), and also that the
doctored image of the first edition of PL, with a frontispiece portrait
pasted in, did NOT come from this collection.  

I am also reminded of an axiom in book history, the Pontifex Factor
[after Ernest Pontifex's grandfather, the religious publisher in The Way
of All Flesh]: "You sell more of a book to be given away than you do of
a book to be read."  

Patrick Scott
Director of Special Collections, 
Thomas Cooper Library,
& Professor of English,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
E-mail: scottp at gwm.sc.edu
 

>>> ms493101 at ohio.edu 8/3/2007 11:03 AM >>>
Dear Fellow Miltonists,

The September 15, 2007 issue of _The Watchtower_ published by the 
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and the Christian Congregation of 
Jehovah's Witnesses includes a three page article on _De Doctrina 
Christiana_ entitled "John Milton's Lost Treatise." The average
printing of 
this magazine is 28,578,000 copies per issue and is available in over
160 
languages worldwide. The article asserts Milton's authorship and
praises 
the writer because "his treatise obliges its readers to measure their
own 
beliefs against the unerring yardstick of Holy Scripture." The
anonymous 
piece also commends Milton for his doctrinal positions on the inherent

mortality of the human soul, the divine but subordinate nature of
Christ, 
the resurrection, and the future of the earth. This article could
generate 
some unexpected interest in the poet.

Best,
Matthew

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