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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Fall of the Angels Creation Fall of Man 13 days 7 days 13 days For possible
symbolic implications, Fowler and his references may be consulted. The
immediate response of most readers of the poem is that these chronologies of the
action ...
Fall of the Angels Creation Fall of Man 13 days 7 days 13 days For possible
symbolic implications, Fowler and his references may be consulted. The
immediate response of most readers of the poem is that these chronologies of the
action ...
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of Creation. This yields an overlapping double series involving a period when the
awakening from stupor of the fallen angels and the creation of the human pair
occur contemporaneously. Masson finds it impossible to judge how soon or how
...
of Creation. This yields an overlapping double series involving a period when the
awakening from stupor of the fallen angels and the creation of the human pair
occur contemporaneously. Masson finds it impossible to judge how soon or how
...
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it in the eighteenth century. (We shall see that the Julian calendar and Julian
chronology are different things.) The reader of Paradise Lost is likely to wish to
know the years in which Milton supposed major events had occurred — Creation,
Fall, ...
it in the eighteenth century. (We shall see that the Julian calendar and Julian
chronology are different things.) The reader of Paradise Lost is likely to wish to
know the years in which Milton supposed major events had occurred — Creation,
Fall, ...
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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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