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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... trees of honour stately stood , / And did all winter as in sommer bud . " [ T ] ¶Spenser , FQ 4.10.22 , [ describing the Temple of Venus ] " No tree , that is of count ... But there was planted , or grew naturall . " All plant life was ...
... trees of honour stately stood , / And did all winter as in sommer bud . " [ T ] ¶Spenser , FQ 4.10.22 , [ describing the Temple of Venus ] " No tree , that is of count ... But there was planted , or grew naturall . " All plant life was ...
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... Tree of Life as well as the Forbidden Tree in order to make him immortal in immutable misery . [ Hume ] ¶The well using of this tree by Satan would have been to reflect on the immortal happiness to be attained by repentance and future ...
... Tree of Life as well as the Forbidden Tree in order to make him immortal in immutable misery . [ Hume ] ¶The well using of this tree by Satan would have been to reflect on the immortal happiness to be attained by repentance and future ...
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... Tree of Knowledge . " " The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , " as term'd Gen. 2. Vers . 9. By the Hebraism of “ Good and Evil . ” is meant the knowledge of all things . . . This fatal Tree . . . had its Name . . . as some imagine ...
... Tree of Knowledge . " " The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , " as term'd Gen. 2. Vers . 9. By the Hebraism of “ Good and Evil . ” is meant the knowledge of all things . . . This fatal Tree . . . had its Name . . . as some imagine ...
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