Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Milton (b. 1608–d. 1674) was a poet active in the republican and Reformation pamphleteering that led into the English Civil Wars and the mid-17th-century Commonwealth government. Completely blind by 1652, he continued to serve the Cromwell government as Latin Secretary, an office that made him his government’s chief propagandist to the European intellectual community. His political and religious views were highly controversial in his own time, even more after the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy (1660), but for nearly three hundred years after his death they were mostly deemphasized as his countrymen sought to celebrate the brilliance of his poetry, especially his epic Paradise Lost (1667, revised 1674). He is usually situated among the three greatest writers of middle and early modern English (along with Chaucer and Shakespeare), and despite some periods in which some or all of his work faced critical hostility, he has sustained the admiration of readers and writers into the present time. While it is impossible to be inclusive, this bibliography seeks to represent some of the best and most useful work on Milton, focusing primarily on the criticism of the current and last few generations. Included are all of the books from 2000 until the time of this publication that have won the Milton Society of America’s highest prize, the James Holly Hanford Award, and this is noted in the annotations; a number of earlier works that have sustained importance are also noted by their Hanford Awards. Also included are a few classic works, from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century, that provided the foundation for later work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".