John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Sourcebook - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415303249 ISBN 13 : 9780415303248

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

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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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415303249
• ISBN 13: 9780415303248
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Éditeur: Kean Margaret