Paradise LostHackett Publishing, 15. 9. 2005. - 496 страница Paradise 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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... stand or fall can it possibly be their own fault. But the poem makes us wonder about both. Their sufficiency is called into question before the end of Book 3. Uriel, “the sharpest-sighted spirit of all in Heaven” (3.691), is deceived by ...
... stand faithful. And even if we can convince ourselves that Adam and Eve were indeed both sufficient and free and that God is not responsible for their fall, it still may seem as if Satan achieves his goal “to confound the race / Of ...
... stands, of Knowledge called, / Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden? / Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them that?” (4.514–17). It is not an unreasonable question. Why should God “envy them that”? “Can it be a ...
... stand / By Ignorance” (4.518–19), it is clear that the poem is determined to show the opposite. For four books Raphael patiently instructs Adam, both advising “him of his happy state” (5.234) and warning “him to beware” (5.237). What ...
... Stand fast; to stand or fall / Free in thine own arbitrament it lies” (8.639–41). In the second line “stand fast” is a spondee bracketed by two iambic feet on either side, the unusual stress emphasizing the (literally) central ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |