He had first planned the work as early as 1640, intending to write a tragedy titled Adam. Lewalski’s edition respects Milton’s original poem and offers supremely clear introductions, bibliography and special material to guide the student reader and educated lay person alike to new discoveries in a work that, quite simply, has it all: good, evil, God, Satan, humans, angels, love, despair, war, politics, sex, duty, and sublime poetry-set in a cosmic landscape that inspires wonder and seduces new readers in every generation. Milton composed the ten books of Paradise Lost between 16. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and well-judged." –Thomas N. "For the student or general reader, looking for an old-spelling edition that is faithful to the original punctuation, this edition has much to recommend it. "Teachers and scholars will welcome Barbara Lewalski’s Blackwell edition of Paradise Lost, one not only informed by the erudition of a prominent and highly respected Miltonist but advantaged by her sound decision to reproduce the original language, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics of the 1674 text." –Edward Jones, Editor, Milton Quarterly
This is an edition that will please students and professors alike, and its sheer quality is a tribute to Barbara Lewalski's passion to provide readers with all the help they need to understand the greatest of all English poems." –Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester It describes an omniscient, all powerful God, the Fall of Man, the Temptation in the Garden of Eden, the disgraced angel who later becomes known as Satan, the. In this exemplary edition of Paradise Lost both qualities are in evidence: the text is scrupulous and the scholarship rigorous, but both the introduction and the notes are accommodated to the needs of students who will be coming to the poem for the first time. "Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching. Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise Lost See also 26, which is from a substantially different print edition.
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