SOURCE: Sandler, Florence. “Thomas Fuller's Pisgah-Sight of Palestine as a Comment on the Politics of Its Time.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 41, no. 4 (August 1978): 317-43.

In the following essay, Sandler examines Fuller's work within the context of issues of church and state during his lifetime.

The Pisgah-Sight of Palestine¹ is not much read these days because of the decline of Thomas Fuller's literary reputation from the heights on which it stood in Coleridge's day. But Miltonists have cause to notice from time to time the genial, large-minded, learned, witty, and prolific Thomas Fuller, divine and man of letters, who was Milton's exact contemporary and a student at Cambridge during Milton's years there, who as a young curate buried Hobson the university carrier, and who in 1642 was one of the earliest writers to allude (disapprovingly) to Milton's first pamphlet, Of Reformation. The Miltonist may be led to the Pisgah-Sight in...