Paradise Lost

A Norton Critical Edition

John Milton, Gordon Teskey (Harvard University)

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WW Norton & Co
04 December 2020

Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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.

By: John Milton
Edited by: Gordon Teskey (Harvard University)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Volume: 0
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 511g
ISBN: 9780393617085
ISBN 10: 0393617084
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Publication Date: 04 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.