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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... 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 Arnold Stein, pp. 17–37; and Revard. 13 The phrase is ...
John Milton David Scott Kastan. “With. Dangers. Compassed. Round”. The shift from the values of the traditional epic has been seen by some as the evidence that Paradise Lost is an epic born in defeat, a conscious turn from history to ...
... round” (2.1048), is above. The sphere of the universe, which contains the earth, hangs by “a golden chain” from the side of Heaven from which the angels fell (2.1005–6). A retractable staircase can be “let down” from Heaven to provide ...
... round / As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible” (1.61–63). Hell too is called an abyss, but, unlike the abyss that is chaos, the abyss of hell is “hollow” (2.518) and its inhabitants ...
... round this florid Earth, what cause Mov'd the Creator in his holy Rest Through all Eternitie so late to build In Chaos, and the work begun, how soon Absolv'd, if unforbid thou maist unfould What wee, not to explore the secrets aske Of ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |