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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... moved sometime in 1631, and. 4 “Life of Milton” (1779), in Shawcross (ed.), Milton 1732–1801, p. 305. 5 Works 1, part 1, 20; further references to Milton's poetry will be cited parenthetically by title and line number. 6 The St. Paul's ...
... move, / . . . attains / Her end without least motion” (8.31–35). He assumes the Ptolemaic system, but recognizes an alternative that is more economical. Raphael does not settle the matter, though he counters Adam's empirical ...
... move / His laughter at their quaint opinions wide / Hereafter, when they come to model heaven / And calculate the stars” (8.76–80). Milton is no more decisive. He describes the sun “fallen / Beneath the Azores”—perhaps merely a familiar ...
... moving simplicity that Milton can attain. In the invocation to light, he poignantly, but without self-pity ... moves through time (“Day,” dusk, dawn; spring flowers, “summer's rose”) and up the scale of nature from the vegetative to the ...
... moving Fires adornd Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills All space, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd Imbracing round this florid Earth, what cause Mov'd the Creator in his holy Rest Through all Eternitie so late to build In Chaos ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |