Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of CommentaryEarl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski Bucknell University Press, 2004 - 510 pages The Commentary, 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. Earl Miner is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, William Moeck teaches English at Nassau Community College. Steven Jablonski is a public librari |
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... Milton canon extending from a common- place book and academic exercises to his doctrinal trea- tise , De Doctrina Christiana , or in poetry from begin- nings to Paradise Regained . The claims reach to grand heights . We are considering ...
... Milton canon extending from a common- place book and academic exercises to his doctrinal trea- tise , De Doctrina Christiana , or in poetry from begin- nings to Paradise Regained . The claims reach to grand heights . We are considering ...
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... Milton is using the Bible , Homer , Virgil , and Tasso in their original languages or Du Bartas in translation . ( We have discovered that after his commonplace books , Milton used neither French nor Spanish writings , as the index ...
... Milton is using the Bible , Homer , Virgil , and Tasso in their original languages or Du Bartas in translation . ( We have discovered that after his commonplace books , Milton used neither French nor Spanish writings , as the index ...
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... Milton study becomes monumental with the variorum editions by Thomas Newton ( 1749 ) and four versions by Henry John Todd ( 1801-42 ) . Many features and ways of un- derstanding the poem were devised then . There is also a social ...
... Milton study becomes monumental with the variorum editions by Thomas Newton ( 1749 ) and four versions by Henry John Todd ( 1801-42 ) . Many features and ways of un- derstanding the poem were devised then . There is also a social ...
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... Milton himself , are always named in full rather than designated by initials . In the bibliography , we supply a list of abbreviations used for frequently cited authors and titles . 4. Paraphrase of Earlier Commentary . In presenting ...
... Milton himself , are always named in full rather than designated by initials . In the bibliography , we supply a list of abbreviations used for frequently cited authors and titles . 4. Paraphrase of Earlier Commentary . In presenting ...
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... Milton had , even though our predecessors may seem emphatic of the wrong thing , oblivious to what we think necessary , or just plain wrong . In gaining an understanding of old ways of understanding Milton , we are startled at times ...
... Milton had , even though our predecessors may seem emphatic of the wrong thing , oblivious to what we think necessary , or just plain wrong . In gaining an understanding of old ways of understanding Milton , we are startled at times ...
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