Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for student readers.
- An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey.
- Source and background materials, including Milton's greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety and key selections from the Bible.
- Topically arranged commentaries and interpretations-seventy-eight in all, thirty-nine of them new to the Second Edition-from classic assessments to current scholarship.
- A glossary of names and suggestions for further reading.
About the Author
Gordon Teskey is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World and Allegory and Violence, and co-editor of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393617085
Author John Milton
Format Paperback
Page Count 624
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 516g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 130mm * 36mm
