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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... faith against the enemies of Christ, to deplore the general relapse of Kingdoms and States from justice and Gods true worship. (The Reason of Church Government [Works 3, part 1, 238]). For Milton, the poet was polemicist, patriot ...
... faith; and that not of yourselves” (Ephesians 2:8), heroic action can never be as fully articulate of its values as the form presumes. The generic implications of this can be clearly heard in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene. There Spenser ...
... faith rather than action. “With Dangers Compassed Round” The shift from the values of. 11 Riggs, p. 120. 12 Cf. Milton's sonnet “On the Lord General Fairfax”: “For what can war, but endless war still breed.” On the war in Heaven, see ...
... faith? These are the difficult questions asked by someone “whose spirit,” in Arthur Sewell's phrase, “has been unsettled in his faith in God and trust in man.”22 Milton has set out to justify God's ways, not least to himself. There are ...
... faith in all was found sufficiently binding,” they established “authoritie, that might restrain by force and punishment what was violated against peace and common right” (ibid., 8). Since the king is thus created by and for the people ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |