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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Paradise lost, 1668-1968. Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2004 (OCoLC)607421337 |
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| Named Person: | John Milton; Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure); John Milton |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Earl Roy Miner; William Moeck; Steven Edward Jablonski |
| ISBN: | 0838755771 9780838755778 |
| OCLC Number: | 53469561 |
| Description: | 510 p. ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Early Comment -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Book 5 -- Book 6 Book 7 -- Book 8 -- Book 9 -- Book 10 -- Book 11 -- Book 12 -- Excurses -- The Chronology of the Poem -- To Compare Great Things -- Personification, Relationship, and Allegory -- To Venture Down and Up to Re-ascend -- Eve at the Lake of Narcissus -- Politics in the Poem -- When Satan First Knew Pain -- Language and Laughter -- Knowledge Is as Food -- Music and the Sabbath -- Cosmology, Astronomy, and Belief -- The Poem's Irregular Regularities -- So Called by Allusion -- The First of the Visions of God -- Historical Measures of This Transient World -- Bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Earl Miner ; co-editor William Moeck ; corresponding editor Steven Jablonski. |
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Abstract:
This book, the first full version on Paradise Lost since the Richardsons' in 1734, combines numerous resources with features used for the first time. It includes the best commentary from "Annotations" like Patrick Hume's (1695), to the variorum editions of Newton (1749) and Todd (1801 - 42), and the modern professional editions culminating in Alastair Fowler's (1968). Other elements include an essay on the early pre-annotative criticism from 1668, including Marvell, Dryden, Dennis, and others; copious use of the OED; numerous cross-references to Milton's other works and passages in Paradise Lost; fourteen excurses and other contributions by the present editors. This Commentary is itself a research library for Paradise Lost. It uniquely presents biblical, classical, and vernacular citations: the ultimate rather than a more recent source is cited, so dating the comment; every cited passage is quoted, and every question is in English. Only a text of the poem is required.
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- Eve -- (Biblical figure) -- In literature.
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- Adam (Personnage biblique) dans la littérature.
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