John Milton's Paradise Lost

A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-30324-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Routledge Guides to Literature

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.

Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:

* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost
* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period
* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism
* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work
* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text
* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.
With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kean, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents; From John Milton, Manuscript of Milton’s Minor Poems (Facsimile, 1899); From John Milton, Of Education, To Master Samuel Hartlib (1644); From John Milton, Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, To the Parlament of England (1644); From John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649); From the speech made by King Charles I at his execution (1649); From John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, 2nd edition (1660); From Edmund Waller, ‘To The King, Upon His Majesty’s Happy Return’ (1664); From John Milton [?], De Doctrina Christiana (pub. 1825); John Milton, ‘The Verse’, Paradise Lost (1674); From John Dryden, Virgil’s Æneis (1697); From Helen Darbishire, The Early Lives of Milton (1932); From The Life of Mr John Milton by John Phillips [actual author, Cyriack Skinner]; From The Life of Mr John Milton by Edward Phillips (1694); 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception 3: Key Passages, Introduction, Book-by-book Breakdown of Paradise Lost (1674), Internal Chronology of Paradise Lost 4: Further Reading, Recommended Modern Editions of Paradise Lost, Biographies, Collections of Critical Essays, Recommended Studies of Paradise Lost, Glossary, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Kean is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has published a number of articles on Milton’s poetry.