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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... sides 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 ...
... side, the unusual stress emphasizing the (literally) central imperative of the line and the poem. The characteristic enjambment also is used expressively, not merely to free the sense from metrical restraint, but sometimes almost ...
... side) rather than a quarto like the first edition. The sheets used for this new edition were, however, larger than the sheets used in 1667, so the finished book, while smaller, is not substantially so. Nonetheless, the pages seem ...
... side to yield and fears that it may not survive the war. But as soon as the signs of the Messiah gleam in the sky and his living chariot and his armor assemble for God, as soon as its wheels horribly grind and shoot out their fierce ...
... side many legions of angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his crew into the great deep. Which action passed over, the poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into hell ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |