Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of CommentaryEarl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski The Commentary, the first full version on Paradise Lost since the Richardsons' in 1734, combines numerous resources with features used for the first time. It includes the best commentary from Annotations like Patrick Hume's (1695), to the variorum editions of Newton (1749) and Todd (1801-42), and the modern professional editions culminating in Alastair Fowler's (1968). Other elements include an essay on the early pre-annotative criticism from 1668, including Marvell, Dryden, Dennis, and others; copious use of the OED; numerous cross-references to Milton's other works and passages in Paradise Lost; fourteen excurses and other contributions by the present editors. This Commentary is itself a research library for Paradise Lost. It uniquely presents biblical, classical, and vernacular citations: the ultimate rather than a more recent source is cited, so dating the comment; every cited passage is quoted, and every question is in English. Only a text of the poem is required. Earl Miner is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, William Moeck teaches English at Nassau Community College. Steven Jablonski is a public librari |
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... Ovid , Metamorphoses 6.165-312 , where his mother , Niobe , boasts in defiance of the gods , bringing on their wrath . [ EM ] 710-11 Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge / Rose like an Exhalation . Homer , Iliad 1.359 , " speedily she ...
... Ovid , Metamorphoses 6.165-312 , where his mother , Niobe , boasts in defiance of the gods , bringing on their wrath . [ EM ] 710-11 Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge / Rose like an Exhalation . Homer , Iliad 1.359 , " speedily she ...
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... Ovid , Metamorphoses 14.59-67 , " Scylla comes and wades waist deep in the water ; when all at once she sees her ... Ovid's Sirens . [ EM ] ¶ [ In addition to various emblem versions of Opinion or Errour for Milton's Sin , John Illo ...
... Ovid , Metamorphoses 14.59-67 , " Scylla comes and wades waist deep in the water ; when all at once she sees her ... Ovid's Sirens . [ EM ] ¶ [ In addition to various emblem versions of Opinion or Errour for Milton's Sin , John Illo ...
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... Ovid specifically says of Cadmus and his wife in Metamorphoses 4. [ 602-3 ] , " Now also as of yore , they neither fear mankind nor wound them , mild creatures , remembering what once they were . " [ N ] ¶Transformations as difficult to ...
... Ovid specifically says of Cadmus and his wife in Metamorphoses 4. [ 602-3 ] , " Now also as of yore , they neither fear mankind nor wound them , mild creatures , remembering what once they were . " [ N ] ¶Transformations as difficult to ...
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