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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... Land . [ V ] 531 the Promis'd Land . Genesis 13.12-15 . " Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan , " where the Lord visited him and declared , " Lift up now thine eyes . . . For all the land which thou seest , to thee will I give it , and ...
... Land . [ V ] 531 the Promis'd Land . Genesis 13.12-15 . " Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan , " where the Lord visited him and declared , " Lift up now thine eyes . . . For all the land which thou seest , to thee will I give it , and ...
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... land of Chaldea . For they left the way of their ancestors , and worshiped the God of heaven , the God whom they knew : so they cast them out from the face of their gods , and they fled into Mesopotamia , and sojourned there many days ...
... land of Chaldea . For they left the way of their ancestors , and worshiped the God of heaven , the God whom they knew : so they cast them out from the face of their gods , and they fled into Mesopotamia , and sojourned there many days ...
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... Land ; and I am authorized by the Wisdom of Solomon [ 17.14 ] , where he calls it " a night ... that came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable Hell " ; and therefore was the more proper to be ( as [ Wisdom says after [ 17.21 ] ...
... Land ; and I am authorized by the Wisdom of Solomon [ 17.14 ] , where he calls it " a night ... that came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable Hell " ; and therefore was the more proper to be ( as [ Wisdom says after [ 17.21 ] ...
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