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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.4
EAN num: 9780393924282
ISBN number: 0393924289
Label: W. W. Norton
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Page Count: 624
Printing Date: December 19, 2004
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This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax.
'Sources and Backgrounds' collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica.
'Criticism' brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler.
A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.
About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
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I took a course on /Paradise Lost/ this past semester. It's such a fruitful read. I get excited just thinking about it. If you are a huge geek like me about any of the following things, I recommend biting the bullet and reading this poem:
*the Bible, particularly Genesis
*the classics
*Philip Pullman's /His Dark Materials/ series. (Read them together! It makes the reading of each piece so much richer! I suggest this to Milton scholars as well.)
*feminist/gender studies
*any literature or popular culture that addresses the fall from grace after Milton does
*anything else you can think of to be geeky about
You could read /Paradise Lost/ through the lens of pretty much any interest, it's that dense. Of course that means it's a bit challenging, but it's worth spending time studying. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
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I needed this book for a graduate course on Milton in a hurry. The bookstore ran out of copies and the professor insisted on this Norton critical edition. No other would do. It was brand new at a great price (better than the bookstore) with really fast shipping. I'm really satisfied with this purchase.
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It is a laborious read, but John Milton's Paradise Lost is worth it. First published in 1667, Paradise Lost remains, many contend, the greatest poem ever published in English, and Milton is deemed second only to Shakespeare among the pantheon of English writers. When reading Milton, be prepared for hundreds of references to Greek and Roman mythology that few of us (myself included) are familiar with as well as works saturated in biblical references and allusions and much obscure vocabulary. Happily, this Norton Critical Edition includes hundreds of notes--footnotes, so there is no disruptive flipping back and forth! This edition also offers dozens of critical essays on Paradise Lost, some dating back to its publication, a couple of Milton's prose works and an extensive glossary. Whether reading for pleasure or for (school) credit, this NCE of Paradise Lost is a godsend.
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I ordered this text to help write a paper, and it has ended up serving as my primary text for my research. The text is at least as good as any of the other editions I have looked at, the footnotes are top-notch, and the critical articles are some of the siminal works. My only gripe is that there are no visual markers in the text for the footnotes, they are simply at the bottom of the page, signified by line number. Because of this, I sometimes don't realize that there are footnotes on a particular line, but this is a minor problem.
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