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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... deep into the texture of the poem. Raphael tells Adam that “Heaven is for thee too high / To know what passes there” and warns him to “be lowly wise” (8.172–73). This is not advice that Milton takes to heart, for his poem indeed ...
... deep a lower deep / Still threatening to devour me opens wide” (4.75–77), but always hell remains external to the mind that experiences it, revealing the monism of all of Milton's cosmos. It does not consist of matter empty of spirit ...
... deep. Which action passed over, the poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into hell, described here, not in the center (for Heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet ...
... deep tract of hell, say first what cause not even Moved our grand parents in that happy state, Favored of Heaven so highly, to fall off 30 From their creator and transgress his will For one restraint, lords of the world besides. Who ...
... deep despair; And him thus answered soon his bold compeer: “O prince, O chief of many thronèd powers, That led. 105. shook his throne: But see 6.833–34, where we are told that everything in heaven “shook,” except “the throne itself of ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |