Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II; With Introduction, Notes, and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)

Professor John Milton

ISBN 10: 1333593716 / ISBN 13: 9781333593711

Published by Forgotten Books, 2017

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204 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II; With Introduction, Notes, and Diagrams (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333593716
• ISBN 13: 9781333593711
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Excerpt from Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II; With Introduction, Notes, and Diagrams

This little book, the outgrowth of teaching, is designed to meet the wants of students. Among the points of difference between it and similar editions, it includes some of the best results of recent investigation, and it omits certain passages that jar on the reverence due to youth.' With very slight exceptions the text is Masson's.* The notes may seem at first sight too numerous; but many of them are intended for teachers, and examination will show that they are calculated to stimulate rather than Supersede thought.

The introductory matter should be read carefully before beginning the critical study.

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About the Author

John Milton was a seventeenth-century English poet, polemicist, and civil servant in the government of Oliver Cromwell. Among Milton s best-known works are the classic epic Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, considered one of the greatest accomplishments in English blank verse, and Samson Agonistes.

Writing during a period of tremendous religious and political change, Milton s theology and politics were considered radical under King Charles I, found acceptance during the Commonwealth period, and were again out of fashion after the Restoration, when his literary reputation became a subject for debate due to his unrepentant republicanism. T.S. Eliot remarked that Milton s poetry was the hardest to reflect upon without one s own political and theological beliefs intruding.