Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838755771 ISBN 13: 9780838755778

Publisher: UNKNO, 2004

Synopsis

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 librarian in Skokie, Illinois.

About this title

About the Author:

Earl Miner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

William Moeck is English at Nassau Community College.

Steven Jablonski is public librarian at Skokie, Illinois.

Review:

"This is a splendidly conceived work, a tribute to Milton, to those who labored early and late to provide commentary to Paradise Lost, and to one of the very best eighteenth-century scholars of eighteenth-century literature...Mr. Miner and his coeditors' extremely valuable resource will serve Miltonists (and others) for many, many years." (Melvyn New, Scriblerian, 34)

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0838755771
• ISBN 13: 9780838755778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 510
• Editor: Miner Earl Roy, Moeck William, Jablonski Steven