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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... four elements or four phases of the moon . But the Pythagoreans venerated it because 4 contains 10 ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ) and therefore all numbers , the rest be- ing but multiplications . [ Hume ] [ In a fourfold mixture and combination the ...
... four elements or four phases of the moon . But the Pythagoreans venerated it because 4 contains 10 ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 ) and therefore all numbers , the rest be- ing but multiplications . [ Hume ] [ In a fourfold mixture and combination the ...
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... four living creatures . And this was their appearance ; they had the likeness of a man " ; 1.16 , " The appearance ... four Faces each ... with Eyes the wheels . Ezekiel 1.6 , " And every one had four faces , and every one had four wings ...
... four living creatures . And this was their appearance ; they had the likeness of a man " ; 1.16 , " The appearance ... four Faces each ... with Eyes the wheels . Ezekiel 1.6 , " And every one had four faces , and every one had four wings ...
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... four and twenty seats : and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting " ; and 11.16 , " And the four and twenty elders , which sat before God on their seats . " Greenwood also identified the promise of Jesus to his disciples ...
... four and twenty seats : and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting " ; and 11.16 , " And the four and twenty elders , which sat before God on their seats . " Greenwood also identified the promise of Jesus to his disciples ...
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