John Milton: Paradise Lost - Softcover

Milton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002338235X ISBN 13: 9780023382352

Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div, 1992

Synopsis

John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial Introduction, fresh commentary, and other features—annotations on Milton’s classical allusions, a chronology of the writer’s life, clean page layouts, and an index—that make it the definitive twenty-first-century presentation of John Milton’s timeless signature work.

About this title

From the Publisher

This is the first fully-annotated, old-spelling edition of Paradise Lost to be published in this century. It surveys in its introduction and incorporates in its notes the large amount of criticism published between 1965 and the present--not to mention the criticism that began with Dryden, Addison, Samuel Johnson, and William Blake--and it reflects critical perspectives from New Criticism to Deconstruction, from Philology to New Historicism and Feminism. On the page, the book combines the look and feel of original editions with the convenience of wide margins and thorough annotation.

About the Author

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 002338235X
• ISBN 13: 9780023382352
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 686
• Editor: Flannagan Roy C.