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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... thanked, because she believed. She will find this too much acknowledgment. She is wrong. And always there is love for MK, JK, and AL. They are usually always happy. INTRODUCTION “a reader of Milton must be Always upon Duty; ix PREFACE.
... happy realms of light” (1.85), are thoroughly material. Heaven is three dimensional: it has length—Abdiel travels “All night . . . Through Heaven's wide champaign” as he returns from the rebel angels to God (6.1–2)—and depth, for the ...
... happy state” (5.234) and warning “him to beware” (5.237). What the angelic narration offers Adam and Eve is explicitly “knowledge,” and knowledge unavailable immediately to human intelligence (unlike the intuitive knowledge that allows ...
... happy trial of thy love, which else / So eminently never had been known. / Were it I thought death menaced would ensue / This my attempt, I would sustain alone / The worst and not persuade thee” (9.975–79), the rhyme of “known” and ...
... 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 first seduced them to that foul revolt? The infernal serpent, he it was, whose guile ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |