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Among the former were men like Denis Driscol, the anti-slavery United Irishman who in the United States published offers of reward for runaways and defended the often-extreme punishments inflicted upon the enslaved. The father of Irish nationalism may have a had deep personal loathing for the country but just as it did for so many who followed him, America had a profound impact on both his life and his legacy. In death - thanks to the efforts of his widow, Matilda - America provided the setting for the publication of his carefully curated papers, which were to prove so influential for Irish nationalism. [Extracted from the article]

This article relocates John Milton's Latin poem to his father ("Ad Patrem") in the contexts of the young Milton's literary self-fashioning and the changing patterns of early modern Virgil reception. Here and in his prose epistles, Milton establishes the persona of a scholarly, questing filial figure, grounded in a reading of book 6 of the "Aeneid" and its drama of fathers and sons. He makes a case for poetry and scholarship as shared practices. This article reflects on a new archival turn in Milton studies and, in turn, how Milton himself invites the reader to become a questing scholar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]