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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... mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church, to sing the ...
... mind / Of man” (10.7–9); or why the fallen angels, turned to serpents after the fall of Adam and Eve, are “permitted” to resume “their lost shape” (10.574); or why hypocrisy is allowed to walk invisible to all but God. These cannot be ...
... mind, both conditioned by and suspicious of the orthodoxies of his time. Or perhaps it reflects something more deliberate and systematic. Adam is obviously sincere in his desire for a mate that is his equal, and God seems pleased with ...
... mind / And inward faculties” and yet several lines later admit that “Authority and reason on her wait / As one intended first, not after made,” sensing her “Greatness of mind” (8.540–57). What he experiences is different from what he ...
... mind that experiences it, revealing the monism of all of Milton's cosmos. It does not consist of matter empty of spirit, but of matter that God's spirit has emptied of everything but his own will to justice. Milton's cosmology is thus ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |