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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.4 EAN: 9780872207332 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0872207331 Label: Hackett Publishing Company Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 427 Publication Date: September 30, 2005 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Studio: Hackett Publishing Company Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Miltonâs contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poemâ"the last of Milton's lifetimeâ"with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation. Marginal glosses define unfamiliar words, and extensive annotations at the foot of the page clarify Miltonâs syntax and poetics, and explore the range of literary, biblical, and political allusions that point to his major concerns. David Kastanâs lively Introduction considers the central interpretative issues raised by the poem, demonstrating how thoroughly it engaged the most vitalâ"and contestedâ"issues of Miltonâs 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 Miltonâs life, and a selected bibliography, as well as the first known biography of Milton, written by Edward Phillips in 1694. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Rise and fall!First off, let me say that we're not talking here about the famous Qi gong instructor named John Milton. We're talking about the famous 17th-century English poet who wrote _Paradise Lost_ and _Paradise Regained_, two of the most wonderfully overlong Christian poems in the history of Western literature. Your English teacher will tell you that _Paradise Lost_ "narrates the story of Adam and Eve's disobedience, explains how and why it happened, and places the story within the larger context ... Read More Rating: - EnthrallingUnbelievably inspiring. I challenge you to compare his reading with any one else's or your own in your head. He makes it alive. Not perfect, mind you. You'll find yourself suggesting to him in certain spots that he missed the meaning by putting some emphasis or other on the wrong words. Nevertheless, you know you couldn't do better overall. A real treasure. Rating: - Review of the Buccaneer Books Library Binding editionMy review is of the library binding edition released by Buccaneer Books. It is a very plain and small volume which is wonderfully bound. It contains nothing but the poem itself (including the prose arguments) with the original spelling and punctuation. That means no notes, commentary, or introduction, so if you're looking for lots of in-text help, this isn't what you want. The Fowler, Hughes, or Norton editions are all laden with helpful material like that. But if you just want to experience Milton's ... Read More Rating:  - Perfectly good recording, incomplete textGreat for a long drive or while driving cross town in Manhattan. You can debate the issues of suffering with Milton in your head. Sure do wish it were the whole work. Rating: - Beautiful tapestryMilton in Paradise Lost unfurls a morning star banner heralding the cosmic story of the fall of angels and men in language eminently civil. I am sure that Homer and Dante were Milton's schoolmasters yet Milton almost exceeds them in the slendid language and poetry of this epic creation. Philip Pullman said "No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words". This is a poem of majesty and sublime lyricism as in Milton's ... Read More 
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