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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... Latin poems, Milton identified the exploits of his “native kings” as his likely focus, possibly the heroism of the Arthurian court (“Mansus,” lines 80–81), or the eventful reigns of Brennus, Arviragus, or Belinus (“Epitaphium Damonis ...
... Latin sense of “struggling”; or in sonorous blends of complex Latinate and simple Saxon words: hell described as a “dark opprobrious den” (2.58) or the “sciential sap” (9.837) of the interdicted tree. The syntax is similarly stylized ...
... Latin by Samuel Barrow (though signed only “S. B. M. D.” and one in English by Andrew Marvell (signed “A. M.”), and a portrait of Milton, bound as a verso to face the title page. The portrait was engraved by William Dolle, and closely ...
... Latin, rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and. 2 This second prefatory poem, by Andrew Marvell, was, like ...
... Latin bellum impium, the phrase used for “civil war”; see also Henry 5, 3.3.15: “impious war.” 45–47. Hurled . . . perdition: The lines blend biblical associations such as Isa. 14:12: “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |