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- Publications
- Influence
Allegories of Fanaticism
- Ross Lerner
- Philosophy
- 2018
Dominant perceptions of religious fanaticism today tend to be as polemical and reductive as they were in the Reformation. Contemporary scholars share with early modern philosophers and theologians a… Expand
Weak Milton
- Ross Lerner
- 2017
This article claims that in “On Shakespear” and “Lycidas” Milton considers weakness as the aesthetic and ethical foundation for his poetic vocation. After losing his sight, Milton identified with St.… Expand
“Doubly Resounded”: Narcissus and Echo in Petrarch, Donne, and Wroth
- Ross Lerner
- Art
- Modern Philology
- 21 October 2020
This essay demonstrates how Petrarch’s Augustinian meditation on poetry’s capacity to scatter or recollect a self leaves a significant and understudied impression on two instances of later Petrarchan… Expand