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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... Stars”. Copernicus' De Revolutionibus was published in 1543, and over the next hundred years scientists like Galileo, Kepler, and Brahe confirmed and extended his insights. Nonetheless the older, Ptolemaic view of the universe with the ...
... of the “seven planets”—the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—and beyond them the “fixed stars” revolving around the earth. Imports not” (8.66–71). God, according to Raphael, has, however, left. xlii.
... stars” (8.76–80). Milton is no more decisive. He describes the sun “fallen / Beneath the Azores”—perhaps merely a familiar metaphor, but he then literalizes it, wondering if the sun “hath thither rolled” or “this less voluble earth ...
... star itself, divinely appointed to announce the birth of Christ” (Works 17, 151). The evidence of its usefulness, taken, of course, not from the work of the contemporary scientists who were remapping the heavens but from the bible ...
... stars, the other would pull them down. While they pluck up mountains and throw them at each other like spears and rain down inhuman fires from above, Olympus stands uncertain to which side to yield and fears that it may not survive the ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |