Bringing together literary criticism, historical bibliography, and religious, political, and print history, this volume offers a definitive scholarly edition of John Milton's Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes.
This edition is a consummate work of modern literary scholarship.
The classic shorter works, from the pastoral poems “L'Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” to the enchanting masque Comus, to the intensely personal sonnets, share the grandeur and vitality of his epics; all serve as continual reminders of ...
Or, as the philosophical poet John Davies of Hereford put it in Mirum in Modum (1602): The Body in the Elements is cloz'd; The Bloud within the body is confin'd; The Spirits, within the Bloud; the Soul's dispoz'd Within the Spirites, ...
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.
An anthology of works by the poet and author encompasses letters, his essays, and such influential treatises as "Areopagitica," a criticism of censorship, enhanced by on-page explanatory notes and scholarly commentary.
Together, this new volume is a crucial addition to Milton scholarship and a fitting tribute to mark the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of the great poet’s birth in 1608.
poetry & poets.
Previously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton's poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose works.
This book is part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, extensive annotations and a critical response.