{"product_id":"paradise-lost-isbn-9781405129299","title":"Paradise Lost","description":"In this authoritative edition of John Milton’s epic poem, \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEdited by one of the world's leading Milton scholars, the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Milton\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell 2000), which won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Book Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers readers the opportunity to experience the brilliance and beauty of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e as it was experienced by his contemporaries\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e in its original 1674 form\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporates accidentals (spelling and punctuation) from the 1674 edition\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRecovers Miltonic rhythms, pronunciations, and sound qualities often lost in modern editions\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnnotates names, places, biblical and literary allusions, and unfamiliar words\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes illustrations by John Baptista Medina from the 1688 Folio edition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Note on This Edition. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextual Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePARADISE LOST\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ\u003c\/i\u003e (S[amuel] B[arrow] M. D.).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Paradise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e (A[ndrew] M[arvell]).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Verse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 4.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 7.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 8.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 9.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 10.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 11.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 12.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextual Notes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Sketches for Dramas on the Fall, from the Trinity Manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching. In this exemplary edition of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGordon Campbell, University of Leicester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Teachers and scholars will welcome Barbara Lewalski’s Blackwell edition of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Jones, Editor, Milton Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and well-judged.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A superb teaching text. 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.\" \u003ci\u003eSharon Achinstein, Oxford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBarbara K. Lewalski\u003c\/b\u003e is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University. She is author of the definitive critical biography, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Milton\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2000), which won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Book Award, and which has been widely celebrated. Her many other publications include \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms \u003c\/i\u003e(1985); \u003ci\u003eMilton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained\u003c\/i\u003e (1966); and \u003ci\u003eProtestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e (1979).  This authoritative edition of Milton’s great epic, \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, presents the poem in the original language (spelling and punctuation) of its 1674 publication. It thereby recovers pronunciations, sonorities, and rhythms often lost in modernized editions. Barbara K. Lewalski offers readers the opportunity to experience the brilliance and beauty of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e as that poem was experienced by Milton’s contemporaries.  \u003cp\u003eBeginning with a brief historical and critical introduction, Lewalski also provides judicious explanatory annotations that clarify names and places, identify biblical and literary allusions, and gloss unfamiliar words. She includes as well a textual apparatus of variant readings, a select bibliography, and several illustrations from the 1688 Folio edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLewalski’s \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of three paperback volumes presenting authoritative texts of the complete poetry and major prose of John Milton in original language, thereby making these texts readily available to students and scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989749285093,"sku":"NP9781405129299","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405129299.jpg?v=1761785343","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/paradise-lost-isbn-9781405129299","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}