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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... matter till it assumes , Proteus - like , its first shape . A simile well - suited to an uncertain search . [ Hume ] ¶All that seems to be meant by " Native forme " is the purifying of water by distill- ing it over and over again by ...
... matter till it assumes , Proteus - like , its first shape . A simile well - suited to an uncertain search . [ Hume ] ¶All that seems to be meant by " Native forme " is the purifying of water by distill- ing it over and over again by ...
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... matter of words , he says : we do not know what matter or spirit are but only our own sensation and ideas , and an idealist like Berkeley would " differ in words only from the grossest material- ist , their ideas being of necessity ...
... matter of words , he says : we do not know what matter or spirit are but only our own sensation and ideas , and an idealist like Berkeley would " differ in words only from the grossest material- ist , their ideas being of necessity ...
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... matters in Book 3. But Raphael's skillful exordium excites attention and may help explain the great ap- peal of the war to early readers . See ensuing notes . [ EM ] 563-66 High matter thou injoinst me ... Of warring Spirits . On the ...
... matters in Book 3. But Raphael's skillful exordium excites attention and may help explain the great ap- peal of the war to early readers . See ensuing notes . [ EM ] 563-66 High matter thou injoinst me ... Of warring Spirits . On the ...
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