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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Page 333
... observation on Patroclus for having disregarded the advice of Achilles at 16.686- 87 , " had he observed the advice of the son of Peleus , he would verily have escaped the evil fate of black death . " [ T , citing Stillingfleet ] 1140 ...
... observation on Patroclus for having disregarded the advice of Achilles at 16.686- 87 , " had he observed the advice of the son of Peleus , he would verily have escaped the evil fate of black death . " [ T , citing Stillingfleet ] 1140 ...
Page 337
... OBSERVATION . IN THE FIRST EDITION this is but the ninth book of the poem : for the author divided the [ seventh ] into two ... observed ) more persons , than any of the rest , viz . , both celestial , terrestrial , infernal , real and ...
... OBSERVATION . IN THE FIRST EDITION this is but the ninth book of the poem : for the author divided the [ seventh ] into two ... observed ) more persons , than any of the rest , viz . , both celestial , terrestrial , infernal , real and ...
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... observation by Keightley is curious in itself and more so in its reception . In a stiff - haired mood , he observed that Milton had probably not read Gondibert 2.8.22 : For though Books serve as Diet of the Minde , If knowledg , early ...
... observation by Keightley is curious in itself and more so in its reception . In a stiff - haired mood , he observed that Milton had probably not read Gondibert 2.8.22 : For though Books serve as Diet of the Minde , If knowledg , early ...
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