Title:
Paradise lost : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism
Author:
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
ISBN:
9780393924282
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Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.
Physical Description:
xxx, 591 pages ; 22 cm.
Series:
A Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition.
Contents:
The life of John Milton -- On the text of Paradise lost.
PARADISE LOST The verse -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Book Nine -- Book Ten -- Book Eleven -- Book Twelve.
Selections from the Bible: Genesis 1-3, 11-12; Exodus 14; Psalms 104, 114, 148; Isaiah 6, 9, 40; Ezekiel 1; Mark 13; Acts 13; 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 12, 20-22 -- Selections from Milton's Prose: -- The reason of church government urged against prelaty -- Areopagitica.
Classic criticism of Paradise Lost: -- On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost / Epigram / Spectator 297 (Feb. 9, 1712) / Spectator 303 (Feb. 16, 1712) / Candide / Essay upon the civil wars of France ... and also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer to Milton / Lives of the English poets / Sketches of English literature / The marriage of heaven and hell / London, 1802 / Lecture 4 / Unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise lost] / Table talk [Milton's egotism] / Don Juan / Prometheus unbound / A defence of poetry / Imaginary conversations / Cromwell / Milton / Milton / Terence, this is stupid stuff / Milton I / Milton II
Modern criticism of Paradise Lost: -- Satan / The problem of Satan / Satan and the technique of degradation / Satan / Satan and the romantic Satan: a notebook / The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / "Yet once more": re-creation, repetition, and return / A preface to Paradise lost / Critics / The milk of the pure word / The garden within / Paradise lost: the conscious meaning and the unconscious meaning / The fall / The fall (II) / Children of God and nature / "Higher argument": completing and publishing Paradise lost / The restoration, 1660-74 / Enhancing suggestions / "Sense variously drawn out": the line in Paradise lost / Paradise lost, I: theme and pattern / With mortal voice: Milton defends against the muse / Critiquing the feminist critique / The genesis of gendered subjectivity in the divorce tracts and in Paradise lost / Eve: the first reflection / Milton's epic poem / How Milton read the book of psalms: his formal, stylistic, and thematic analysis / The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / Paradise lost: possible inconsistency / The poet and the theme / Not so much a teaching as an intangling / Milton's choice of subject in the context of renaissance critical theory
Abstract:
Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.
Written at a time of personal and political crisis in Milton's career (1658-65), Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature. It had an immense influence on the English Romantics and, through them, on modern poetry. This Norton Critical edition is based on the 1674 edition of the poem, the last to appear in Milton's lifetime, with a few emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript, and noted. Gordon Tesky provides readers with a freshly edited text intended for those approaching Milton for the first time. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. The text of Paradise Lost is accompanied by an introduction, an introduction, an account of Milton's life, ample annotations, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. Also included is an unusually rich criticism section, which collects forty-eight diverse commentaries and interpretations, culled from the enormous body of scholarly writing on the poem. -- From Back Cover.
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