内容简介
Written at a time of personal and political crisis in Milton's ca-reer (1658-65), Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature. It had an immense influence on the English Roman-tics and, through them, on modern poetry This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1674 edition of the poem, the last to ap-pear in Milton's lifetime, with a few emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manu*, as noted.Gordon Teskey provides readers with a freshly edited text in-tended for those approaching Milton for the first time. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. The text is accompanied by an introduction, an account of Milton's life, ample annotations, a glossary,and suggestions for further reading.
"Sources and Backgrounds" includes selections from the Bible and from Milton's prose writings, including his greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety.
"Sources and Backgrounds" includes selections from the Bible and from Milton's prose writings, including his greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety.