Gluttony and Gratitude: Milton's Philosophy of Eating. Emily E. Stelzer. Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. xii + 364 pp. $79.95.
ing on this edition, such as Lara Crowley’s Manuscript Matter: Reading John Donne’s Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England (2018), are already demonstrating how the Variorum’s function is not only to record but also, and more importantly, to spark the most significant critical responses to the poet. In that, the volume resembles Donne and his writings: prolific, ambitious, daring, at first a little obscure or daunting, perhaps, but undeniably generous in the erudition it spreads, and the legacy it promises to leave behind.