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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Page 103
The thought parallels that of Seneca, De Consolatione 1 1 .7, in writing to his
mother Helvia about the soul as kindred to the gods and at home in every world
and every age because its thought ranges through all heaven and through all
past ...
The thought parallels that of Seneca, De Consolatione 1 1 .7, in writing to his
mother Helvia about the soul as kindred to the gods and at home in every world
and every age because its thought ranges through all heaven and through all
past ...
Page 293
Keightley thought "other suns" referred to Jupiter and Saturn, which Milton knew
to be planets; but since their moons had been discovered by Galileo, he might
have thought of them as suns giving direct, "male" light and their moons "female,"
...
Keightley thought "other suns" referred to Jupiter and Saturn, which Milton knew
to be planets; but since their moons had been discovered by Galileo, he might
have thought of them as suns giving direct, "male" light and their moons "female,"
...
Page 483
If the spheres around the center must travel at ever greater velocities, as they are
distant from the center, to complete their rotation in a day, the diurnal rotation of
the earth itself was a subject of very great importance to all schools of thought.
If the spheres around the center must travel at ever greater velocities, as they are
distant from the center, to complete their rotation in a day, the diurnal rotation of
the earth itself was a subject of very great importance to all schools of thought.
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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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