Paradise LostParadise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poem--the last of Milton's lifetime--with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation. Marginal glosses define unfamiliar words, and extensive annotations at the foot of the page clarify Milton's syntax and poetics, and explore the range of literary, biblical, and political allusions that point to his major concerns. David Kastan's lively Introduction considers the central interpretative issues raised by the poem, demonstrating how thoroughly it engaged the most vital--and contested--issues of Milton's time, and which reveal themselves as no less vital, and perhaps no less contested, today. The edition also includes an essay on the text, a chronology of major events in Milton's life, and a selected bibliography, as well as the first known biography of Milton, written by Edward Phillips in 1694. |
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... appeared in his Complete Poems and Major Prose, and in 1962 the edition was further revised and published again on its own. For the majority of the 20th century most American students who read Paradise Lost did so guided by Merritt ...
... appeared, Patrick Hume (though identified only as P. H.) published his Annotations . . . Wherein the Texts of Sacred Writ Relating to the Poem are Quoted; The Parallel Places and Imitations of the Most Excellent Homer and Virgil, Cited ...
... appearance the nobility of Paradise Lost has rarely been in doubt. In January of 1668, one of its first readers, Sir John Hobart, sent his cousin a copy of the poem with a letter remarking that “Some resemblance it has to Spenser's way ...
... ideology or, alternatively, argue that this proves Milton indeed of the Devil's party; but in fact Milton is guilty of neither inconsistency nor sacrilege. What produces the appearance of contradiction xxviii PARADISE LOST.
John Milton David Scott Kastan. neither inconsistency nor sacrilege. What produces the appearance of contradiction is that Milton's God, in spite of being called “all-powerful king” (2.851), “matchless king” (4.41), “all bounteous king ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |