Paradise Lost - Brossura

Milton, John; Kastan, David Scott; Hughes, Merritt Yerkes

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0872207331 ISBN 13: 9780872207332

Casa editrice: Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2005

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hackett Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0872207331
• ISBN 13: 9780872207332
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 427