The present volume, written by Anglo-French author Denis Saurat, will appeal to anyone "who wishes to know how the classics may be kept alive. It stands as one of the chief contributions thus far to the scholarship which over nearly a decade in Europe and America has been making a new person out of Milton." (The Nation magazine) This is the Second Edition, originally published in 1944, which includes a section that "brings new light on the history of Milton's ideas by a closer study of his English contemporaries, Robert Fludd and the Mortalists."