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Paradise Lost (Hackett Classics) - Softcover

Milton, John

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9780872207332: Paradise Lost (Hackett Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0872207331 ISBN 13: 9780872207332
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poem--the last of Milton's lifetime--with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation. Marginal glosses define unfamiliar words, and extensive annotations at the foot of the page clarify Milton's syntax and poetics, and explore the range of literary, biblical, and political allusions that point to his major concerns. David Kastan's lively Introduction considers the central interpretative issues raised by the poem, demonstrating how thoroughly it engaged the most vital--and contested--issues of Milton's time, and which reveal themselves as no less vital, and perhaps no less contested, today.

The edition also includes an essay on the text, a chronology of major events in Milton's life, and a selected bibliography, as well as the first known biography of Milton, written by Edward Phillips in 1694.

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About the Author

David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University.

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Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0872207331
ISBN 13 
9780872207332
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
512
Editor
Kastan David Scott
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  • 3.86 out of 5 stars
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