| Description |
xxx, 591 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-591). |
| Summary |
"This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton s syntax. 'Sources and Backgrounds' collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton s prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. 'Criticism' brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included."--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Introduction: -- The life of John Milton -- On the text of Paradise lost. |
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Paradise lost / [John Milton]: -- 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. |
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Sources and backgrounds: -- 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. |
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Criticism: -- Classic criticism of Paradise Lost: -- On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost / Andrew Marvell -- Epigram / John Dryden -- From Spectator 297 (Feb. 9, 1712) / Joseph Addison -- From Spectator 303 (Feb. 16, 1712) / Joseph Addison -- From Candide / Voltaire -- From Essay upon the civil wars of France ... and also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer to Milton / Voltaire -- From Lives of the English poets / Samuel Johnson -- From Sketches of English literature / Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand -- From The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake -- London, 1802 / William Wordsworth -- From Lecture 4 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise lost] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From Table talk [Milton's egotism] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- From the preface to Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- From A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- From Imaginary conversations / Walter Savage Landor -- From Cromwell / Victor Hugo -- Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- From Milton / Matthew Arnold -- From Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman -- From Milton I / T.S. Eliot -- From Milton II / T.S. Eliot. |
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Modern criticism of Paradise Lost: -- On Satan: -- From Satan / C.S. Lewis -- From The problem of Satan / Balachandra Rajan -- From Satan and the technique of degradation / A.J.A. Waldock -- From Satan / William Empson-- From Satan and the romantic Satan: a notebook / Kenneth Gross -- From The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / William Flesch -- From "Yet once more": re-creation, repetition, and return / Regina M. Schwartz -- On God: -- From the conclusion to A preface to Paradise lost / C.S. Lewis -- From Critics / William Empson -- From The milk of the pure word / Stanley Fish -- From The garden within / Northrop Frye -- On Adam and Eve: -- From Paradise lost: the conscious meaning and the unconscious meaning / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The fall / C.S. Lewis -- From The fall (II) / A.J.A. Waldock -- From Children of God and nature / Northrop Frye -- From "Higher argument": completing and publishing Paradise lost / Barbara K. Lewalski -- On style and versification: -- From The restoration, 1660-74 / Douglas Bush -- From Enhancing suggestions / Christopher B. Ricks -- From "Sense variously drawn out": the line in Paradise lost / Arnold Burnett -- On Christian ideology: -- From Paradise lost, I: theme and pattern / A.S.P. Woodhouse -- From With mortal voice: Milton defends against the muse / Stanley Fish -- On feminism: -- From Critiquing the feminist critique / Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr. -- From The genesis of gendered subjectivity in the divorce tracts and in Paradise lost / Mary Nyquist -- From Eve: the first reflection / Julia M. Walker -- On the poet himself: -- From Milton's epic poem / Helen Vendler -- From How Milton read the book of psalms: his formal, stylistic, and thematic analysis / Mary Ann Radzinowicz -- From The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / William Flesch -- General criticism: -- Paradise lost: possible inconsistency / E.M.W. Tillyard -- From The poet and the theme / A.J.A. Waldock -- From Not so much a teaching as an intangling / Stanley Fish -- From Milton's choice of subject in the context of renaissance critical theory / Gordon Teskey. |
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Bible. Genesis -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
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Adam (Biblical figure) -- Poetry.
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Eve (Biblical figure) -- Poetry.
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Fall of man in literature.
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Fall of man -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Teskey, Gordon, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9780393924282 |
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0393924289 |
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