Paradise Lost

by Milton,John

• ISBN13: 9780393924282
• ISBN10: 0393924289
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-15
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xv
The Life of John Milton	xv
On the Text of Paradise Lost	xxvii
Paradise Lost	1	(304)
The Verse	2	(1)
Book One	3	(23)
Book Two	26	(29)
Book Three	55	(22)
Book Four	77	(28)
Book Five	105	(27)
Book Six	132	(26)
Book Seven	158	(19)
Book Eight	177	(19)
Book Nine	196	(33)
Book Ten	229	(31)
Book Eleven	260	(24)
Book Twelve	284	(21)
Sources and Backgrounds	305	(70)
SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE	307	(24)
Genesis 1-3, 11-12	307	(6)
Exodus 14	313	(2)
Psalms 104, 114, 148	315	(2)
Isaiah 6, 9, 40	317	(2)
Ezekiel 1	319	(2)
Mark 13	321	(1)
Acts 13	321	(2)
1 Corinthians 15	323	(2)
Revelation 12, 20-22	325	(6)
SELECTIONS FROM MILTON'S PROSE	331	(44)
The Reason of Church Government Urged against Prelaty (Introduction to Book II)	331	(8)
Areopagitica	339	(36)
Criticism	375	(174)
CLASSIC CRITICISM OF PARADISE LOST	377	(24)
Andrew Marvell
On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost	377	(1)
John Dryden
Epigram	378	(1)
From Preface to Second Miscellany	379	(1)
Joseph Addison
From Spectator 297 (Feb. 9, 1712)	379	(2)
From Spectator 303 (Feb. 16, 1712)	381	(1)
Voltaire
From Candide	382	(1)
From Essay upon the Civil Wars of France...And also upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nations from Homer to Milton	383	(1)
Samuel Johnson
From Lives of the English Poets	384	(3)
François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
From Sketches of English Literature	387	(2)
William Blake
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	389	(1)
William Wordsworth
London, 1802	390	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Lecture 4	390	(1)
Unassigned Lecture Notes [Milton and Paradise Lost]	391	(1)
From Table Talk [Milton's Egotism]	392	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
From Don Juan	392	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
From the preface to Prometheus Unbound	393	(1)
From A Defence of Poetry	394	(1)
Walter Savage Landor
From Imaginary Conversations	395
Victor Hugo
From Cromwell	397	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Milton	397	(1)
Matthew Arnold
From Milton	398	(1)
A.E. Housman
From Terence, this is stupid stuff	399	(1)
T.S. Eliot
From Milton I	399	(1)
From Milton II	400	(1)
MODERN CRITICISM OF PARADISE LOST	401	(148)
On Satan	401	(36)
C.S. Lewis
From Satan	401	(6)
Balachandra Rajan
From The Problem of Satan	407	(6)
A.J.A. Waldock
From Satan and the Technique of Degradation	413	(4)
William Empson
From Satan	417	(3)
Kenneth Gross
From Satan and the Romantic Satan: A Notebook	420	(5)
William Flesch
From The Majesty of Darkness: Idol and Image in Milton	425	(2)
Regina M. Schwartz
From "Yet Once More": Re-Creation, Repetition, and Return	427	(10)
On God	437	(12)
C.S. Lewis
From the conclusion to A Preface to Paradise Lost	437	(2)
William Empson
From Critics	439	(3)
Stanley Fish
From The Milk of the Pure Word	442	(3)
Northrop Frye
From The Garden Within	445	(4)
On Adam and Eve	449	(27)
E.M.W. Tillyard
From Paradise Lost: The Conscious Meaning and The Unconscious Meaning	449	(4)
C.S. Lewis
The Fall	453	(2)
A.J.A. Waldock
From The Fall (II)	455	(3)
Northrop Frye
From Children of God and Nature	458	(8)
Barbara K. Lewalski
From "Higher Argument": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost	466	(10)
On Style and Versification	476	(16)
Douglas Bush
From The Restoration, 1660-74	476	(5)
Christopher B. Ricks
From Enhancing Suggestions	481	(3)
Archie Burnett
From "Sense Variously Drawn Out": The Line in Paradise Lost	484	(8)
On Christian Ideology	492	(9)
A.S.P. Woodhouse
From Paradise Lost, I: Theme and Pattern	492	(6)
Stanley Fish
From With Mortal Voice: Milton Defends against the Muse	498	(3)
On Feminism	501	(20)
Joseph A. Wittreich Jr.
From Critiquing the Feminist Critique	501	(3)
Mary Nyquist
From The Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in the Divorce Tracts and in Paradise Lost	504	(12)
Julia M. Walker
From Eve: The First Reflection	516	(5)
On the Poet Himself	521	(13)
Helen Vendler
From Milton's Epic Poem	521	(6)
Mary Ann Radzinowicz
From How Milton Read the Book of Psalms: His Formal, Stylistic, and Thematic Analysis	527	(4)
William Flesch
From The Majesty of Darkness: Idol and Image in Milton	531	(3)
General Criticism	534	(15)
E.M.W. Tillyard
Paradise Lost: Possible Inconsistency	534	(4)
A.J.A. Waldock
From The Poet and the Theme	538	(4)
Stanley Fish
From Not so much a Teaching as an Intangling	542	(3)
Gordon Teskey
From Milton's Choice of Subject in the Context of Renaissance Critical Theory	545	(4)
Glossary of Names in Paradise Lost	549	(40)
Suggestions for Further Reading	589