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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... poem, necessarily unavailable to Hughes. Hughes had first published his edition of Paradise Lost in 1935. In 1957 a revised edition appeared in his Complete Poems and Major Prose, and in 1962 the edition was further revised and ...
... poem, which more than most seems to need their labors. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Paradise Lost was the first English poem to receive full scholarly annotation. In 1695, a mere twenty-eight years after the poem first appeared, Patrick Hume ...
... poem with a letter remarking that “Some resemblance it has to Spenser's way, but in the opinion of the impartial learned, not only above all modern attempts in verse, but equal to any of the Ancient Poets.”2 Hobart does mention Milton's ...
... poem has again found a generation of enthusiastic readers drawn to the “vast design,” as Andrew Marvell called it (see p. 3 below), of this remarkable poem, arguably unrivaled in its intellectual scope and poetic ambition. Although ...
... poetic appeal for inspiration. Its unmistakable echo of Isaiah 6 betrays his decidedly unconventional understanding ... poems, Milton identified the exploits of his “native kings” as his likely focus, possibly the heroism of the ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |