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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The first ten lines report his fear that "the Poet blind, yet bold" (1) had as "his
Intent" to "ruine . . . The sacred Truths to Fable and old Song" (5-8). That ruining
by fictionalizing would overwhelm the world in a fit of spite for making him blind.
The first ten lines report his fear that "the Poet blind, yet bold" (1) had as "his
Intent" to "ruine . . . The sacred Truths to Fable and old Song" (5-8). That ruining
by fictionalizing would overwhelm the world in a fit of spite for making him blind.
Page 433
Not many readers would guess that the actual heavenly council in Book 3 takes
up only 359 lines (56-415). It is also surprising to compare the number of lines
devoted to narrating the War in Heaven with those narrating the Creation. The
War ...
Not many readers would guess that the actual heavenly council in Book 3 takes
up only 359 lines (56-415). It is also surprising to compare the number of lines
devoted to narrating the War in Heaven with those narrating the Creation. The
War ...
Page 491
Since there can be no examples in Milton's poem of fourteen consecutive rhymed
lines, it is possible to conceive only of blank verse sonnets or verse units of
fourteen lines. Those who would reject the conception of submerged or blank
verse ...
Since there can be no examples in Milton's poem of fourteen consecutive rhymed
lines, it is possible to conceive only of blank verse sonnets or verse units of
fourteen lines. Those who would reject the conception of submerged or blank
verse ...
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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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