Paradise lost : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism /

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...

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Main Authors: Milton, John, 1608-1674 (Author)
Group Author: Teskey, Gordon, 1953 (Editor)
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2005]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Norton critical edition
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: xxx, 591 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780393924282 (paperback) :
0393924289 (paperback)
Index Number: PR3560
CLC: I561.072
I561.24
Call Number: I561.24/M662-4
Contents: The life of John Milton --
On the text of Paradise lost.
PARADISE LOST
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.
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.