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Paradise lost : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism / John Milton ; edited by Gordon Teskey.
Author
Milton, John, 1608-1674
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005
Description
xxx, 591 pages ; 22 cm.
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PR3560.A2 T47 2005
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Fall of man in literature
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Fall of man
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Poetry
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Bible Genesis
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History of Biblical events
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Poetry
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Milton, John 1608-1674
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Paradise lost
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Adam (Biblical figure)
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Poetry
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Eve (Biblical figure)
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Poetry
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Editor
Teskey, Gordon, 1953-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Poetry
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Novels
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novels
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poetry
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Series
Norton critical edition
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Summary note
Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-591).
Contents
INTRODUCTION:
The life of John Milton
On the text of Paradise lost.
PARADISE LOST [/ John Milton]:
The verse
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Book Eleven
Book Twelve.
SOURCES AND BACKGROUNDS:
Selections from the Bible: Genesis 1-3, 11-12; Exodus 14; Psalms 104, 114, 148; Isaiah 6, 9, 40; Ezekiel 1; Mark 13; Acts 13; 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 12, 20-22
Selections from Milton's Prose:
The reason of church government urged against prelaty
Areopagitica.
CRITICISM:
Classic criticism of Paradise Lost:
On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost / Andrew Marvell
Epigram / John Dryden
From Spectator 297 (Feb. 9, 1712) / Joseph Addison
From Spectator 303 (Feb. 16, 1712) / Joseph Addison
From Candide / Voltaire
From Essay upon the civil wars of France ... and also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer to Milton / Voltaire
From Lives of the English poets / Samuel Johnson
From Sketches of English literature / Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
From The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake
London, 1802 / William Wordsworth
From Lecture 4 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise lost] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Table talk [Milton's egotism] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron
From the preface to Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley
From A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Imaginary conversations / Walter Savage Landor
From Cromwell / Victor Hugo
Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From Milton / Matthew Arnold
From Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman
From Milton I / T.S. Eliot
From Milton II / T.S. Eliot.
Modern criticism of Paradise Lost:
On Satan:
From Satan / C.S. Lewis
From The problem of Satan / Balachandra Rajan
From Satan and the technique of degradation / A.J.A. Waldock
From Satan / William Empson-- From Satan and the romantic Satan: a notebook / Kenneth Gross
From The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / William Flesch
From "Yet once more": re-creation, repetition, and return / Regina M. Schwartz
On God:
From the conclusion to A preface to Paradise lost / C.S. Lewis
From Critics / William Empson
From The milk of the pure word / Stanley Fish
From The garden within / Northrop Frye
On Adam and Eve:
From Paradise lost: the conscious meaning and the unconscious meaning / E.M.W. Tillyard
The fall / C.S. Lewis
From The fall (II) / A.J.A. Waldock
From Children of God and nature / Northrop Frye
From "Higher argument": completing and publishing Paradise lost / Barbara K. Lewalski
On style and versification:
From The restoration, 1660-74 / Douglas Bush
From Enhancing suggestions / Christopher B. Ricks
From "Sense variously drawn out": the line in Paradise lost / Arnold Burnett
On Christian ideology:
From Paradise lost, I: theme and pattern / A.S.P. Woodhouse
From With mortal voice: Milton defends against the muse / Stanley Fish
On feminism:
From Critiquing the feminist critique / Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr.
From The genesis of gendered subjectivity in the divorce tracts and in Paradise lost / Mary Nyquist
From Eve: the first reflection / Julia M. Walker
On the poet himself:
From Milton's epic poem / Helen Vendler
From How Milton read the book of psalms: his formal, stylistic, and thematic analysis / Mary Ann Radzinowicz
General criticism:
Paradise lost: possible inconsistency / E.M.W. Tillyard
From The poet and the theme / A.J.A. Waldock
From Not so much a teaching as an intangling / Stanley Fish
From Milton's choice of subject in the context of renaissance critical theory / Gordon Teskey.
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ISBN
0393924289 ((paperback))
9780393924282 ((paperback))
LCCN
2004054779
OCLC
55871109
International Article Number
9780393924282
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