Paradise Lost

 Content: INTRODUCTION: --
 The life of John Milton --
 On the text of Paradise lost. PARADISE LOST [/ John Milton]: --
 The verse --
 Book One --
 Book Two --
 Book Three --
 Book Four --
 Book Five --
 Book Six --
 Book Seven --
 Book Eight --
 Book Nine --
 Book Ten --
 Book Eleven --
 Book Twelve. SOURCES AND BACKGROUNDS: --
 Selections from the Bible: Genesis 1-3, 11-12; Exodus 14; Psalms 104, 114, 148; Isaiah 6, 9, 40; Ezekiel 1; Mark 13; Acts 13; 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 12, 20-22 --
 Selections from Milton\'s Prose: --
 The reason of church government urged against prelaty --
 Areopagitica. CRITICISM: --
 Classic criticism of Paradise Lost: --
 On Mr. Milton\'s Paradise lost / Andrew Marvell --
 Epigram / John Dryden --
 From Spectator 297 (Feb. 9, 1712) / Joseph Addison --
 From Spectator 303 (Feb. 16, 1712) / Joseph Addison --
 From Candide / Voltaire --
 From Essay upon the civil wars of France ... and also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer to Milton / Voltaire --
 From Lives of the English poets / Samuel Johnson --
 From Sketches of English literature / Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand --
 From The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake --
 London, 1802 / William Wordsworth --
 From Lecture 4 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
 Unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise lost] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
 From Table talk [Milton\'s egotism] / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
 From Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
 From the preface to Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
 From A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
 From Imaginary conversations / Walter Savage Landor --
 From Cromwell / Victor Hugo --
 Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
 From Milton / Matthew Arnold --
 From Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman --
 From Milton I / T.S. Eliot --
 From Milton II / T.S. Eliot. Modern criticism of Paradise Lost: --
 On Satan: --
 From Satan / C.S. Lewis --
 From The problem of Satan / Balachandra Rajan --
 From Satan and the technique of degradation / A.J.A. Waldock --
 From Satan / William Empson--
 From Satan and the romantic Satan: a notebook / Kenneth Gross --
 From The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / William Flesch --
 From \'\'Yet once more\'\': re-creation, repetition, and return / Regina M. Schwartz --
 On God: --
 From the conclusion to A preface to Paradise lost / C.S. Lewis --
 From Critics / William Empson --
 From The milk of the pure word / Stanley Fish --
 From The garden within / Northrop Frye --
 On Adam and Eve: --
 From Paradise lost: the conscious meaning and the unconscious meaning / E.M.W. Tillyard --
 The fall / C.S. Lewis --
 From The fall (II) / A.J.A. Waldock --
 From Children of God and nature / Northrop Frye --
 From \'\'Higher argument\'\': completing and publishing Paradise lost / Barbara K. Lewalski --
 On style and versification: --
 From The restoration, 1660-74 / Douglas Bush --
 From Enhancing suggestions / Christopher B. Ricks --
 From \'\'Sense variously drawn out\'\': the line in Paradise lost / Arnold Burnett --
 On Christian ideology: --
 From Paradise lost, I: theme and pattern / A.S.P. Woodhouse --
 From With mortal voice: Milton defends against the muse / Stanley Fish --
 On feminism: --
 From Critiquing the feminist critique / Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr. --
 From The genesis of gendered subjectivity in the divorce tracts and in Paradise lost / Mary Nyquist --
 From Eve: the first reflection / Julia M. Walker --
 On the poet himself: --
 From Milton\'s epic poem / Helen Vendler --
 From How Milton read the book of psalms: his formal, stylistic, and thematic analysis / Mary Ann Radzinowicz --
 From The majesty of darkness: idol and image in Milton / William Flesch --
 General criticism: --
 Paradise lost: possible inconsistency / E.M.W. Tillyard --
 From The poet and the theme / A.J.A. Waldock --
 From Not so much a teaching as an intangling / Stanley Fish --
 From Milton\'s choice of subject in the context of renaissance critical theory / Gordon Teskey.
 Abstract:             Presents John Milton\'s epic poem \'\'Paradise Lost,\'\' in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.
Written at a time of personal and political crisis in Milton\'s career (1658-65), Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature. It had an immense influence on the English Romantics and, through them, on modern poetry. This Norton Critical edition is based on the 1674 edition of the poem, the last to appear in Milton\'s lifetime, with a few emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript, and noted. Gordon Tesky provides readers with a freshly edited text intended for those approaching Milton for the first time. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter within the limits imposed by Milton\'s syntax. The text of Paradise Lost is accompanied by an introduction, an introduction, an account of Milton\'s life, ample annotations, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. Also included is an unusually rich criticism section, which collects forty-eight diverse commentaries and interpretations, culled from the enormous body of scholarly writing on the poem. -- From Back Cover