Milton: Paradise Lost

by John Milton, Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Orgel

Overview

Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.

Author Biography:

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192833198
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Philip Pullman
Paradise Lost
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Afterword
A Note on the Illustrations

Editorial Reviews

This Oxford edition of the Milton standard sports heavy paper and a ribbon marker, plus an intro by Philip Pullman on the work's influence on his own writing. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

[A]n exemplary job both of presenting the major topics of Paradise Lost and of entering the selva oscura of Milton criticism. . . . Students and scholars alike will appreciate the balanced approach to the complexities, difficulties, and conundrums of Milton's poem and the criticism on it. Kastan's prose is not just lively but chiseled, and it is destined to affect students. --Patrick Cheney, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

Kastan is an exemplary editor, attuned to emerging critical currents, yet steeped in the scholarship of an earlier tradition, aware of the text's provenance and reception, alert to its topicality. His introduction, a model of theoretically informed, politically committed, historically grounded criticism, makes this edition of Paradise Lost all you would expect from one of the most erudite and perceptive figures in the field. --Willy Maley, Modern Language Review

This is a superb edition, a model of careful editing and judicious annotation. --Leslie Brisman, Department of English, Yale University

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