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Paradise Lost
Contributor(s): Milton, John (Author), Teskey, Gordon (Editor)
ISBN: 0393617084     ISBN-13: 9780393617085
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $30.64  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2020
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.4
LCCN: 2020010647
Lexile Measure: 1360
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.1" W x 8.7" (1.23 lbs) 624 pages
 
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Publisher 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 modernized 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 Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Contributor Bio(s): Teskey, Gordon: - 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.