Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of CommentaryEarl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski 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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[A grecism] the air is compared to marble for its clearness and whiteness, without
any regard to its hardness; and the word "marmor," "marble," is derived from
Greek, to shine and glister. So Virgil, Georgics 4.523, "plucked from its marble
neck.
[A grecism] the air is compared to marble for its clearness and whiteness, without
any regard to its hardness; and the word "marmor," "marble," is derived from
Greek, to shine and glister. So Virgil, Georgics 4.523, "plucked from its marble
neck.
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"Hermes" is quicksilver; "Proteus" is understood by the ancients to the first
principle of all things, as in Virgil, Georgics 4.440-44, "[Proteus] changes himself
into all wondrous shapes . . . But when no stratagem wins escape, vanquished he
...
"Hermes" is quicksilver; "Proteus" is understood by the ancients to the first
principle of all things, as in Virgil, Georgics 4.440-44, "[Proteus] changes himself
into all wondrous shapes . . . But when no stratagem wins escape, vanquished he
...
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Georgics 4.83, "[bees] have mighty souls beating in tiny breasts." [Hume] 487-89
Pattern of just equalitie perhaps . . . Of Commonaltie. The ant seems an example
of absolute equality, imitable hereafter by commonwealths, linked and joined ...
Georgics 4.83, "[bees] have mighty souls beating in tiny breasts." [Hume] 487-89
Pattern of just equalitie perhaps . . . Of Commonaltie. The ant seems an example
of absolute equality, imitable hereafter by commonwealths, linked and joined ...
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| Title | Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary |
| Editors | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bucknell University Press, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0838755771, 9780838755778 |
| Length | 510 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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