Followingthe editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine thenature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and its implications for hisprose and poetryscholarly Milton the writeras well as subsequent scholarshistorical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as an object of scholarlyattentionscholarly Milton as at first an emergent and later an establishedacademic discipline. The essays are particularly concerned with the topics ofthe ethical ends of learning, of Miltons attention to the trivium within theRenaissance humanist educational system, and the development of scholarlycommentary on Miltons