A London–Budapest–Moszkva-tengely: Szenczi Miklós Milton Moszkóviájáról
The London–Budapest–Moscow Axis: Miklós Szenczi on Milton’s Moscovia

Summary/Abstract: John Milton’s posthumously published A Brief History of Moscovia (1682) is one of the lesser-known works of the great poet, in which eyewitness reports and early modern travelogues are collected to provide a concise summary of Russian history, geography, ethnography, and Anglo-Russian relations. This work also played some role in Milton’s Hungarian reception: Miklós Szenczi, the great 20th-century Miltonist, published an article in the late 1960s which, quite uniquely for a Central-Eastern European English Studies scholar, made its way to mainstream Milton criticism. In my paper, I consider Szenczi’s position on Milton’s treatise.

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