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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... fruit” (10.12–13). Second, they are free in spite of God's foreknowledge, because divine foreknowledge is possible, as Milton understands. 20 See Lovejoy, who traces the “Paradox of the Fortunate Fall” as it finds “recurrent expression ...
... fruit of the forbidden tree. On the “scale of nature,” however, one finds one's freedom in recognizing one's own place in God's dynamic hierarchy. This double focus may account for some of the contradictions that have exercised critics ...
... Fruits in her softened soil, for some to eat / Allotted there” (8.145–48). For Raphael this is mere, if (just barely) permitted, speculation. 41 In Areopagitica, Milton says he met “the famous Galileo ... a prisoner to the Inquisition ...
... fruit of the Tree of Knowledge does not contain knowledge in the same way that fruit contains vitamins and minerals. Raphael warns them about “the tree / Which tasted works knowledge of good and evil” (7.542–43), but it is clear that ...
... fruit, why is the interdicted tree not called the Tree of Obedience or the Tree of Trial? Indeed at one point it is called “the tree / Of prohibition” (9.644–45), but in the poem it is again and again “the Tree of Knowledge” and once ...
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The Life of Milton | 407 |
A Chronology of the Main Events in Miltons Life | 425 |