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Title:Paradise Lost -- A Poem Written in Ten Books : Essays on the 1667 First Edition
Series:(Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Author:Michael Lieb & John T Shawcross (eds)
ISBN:0820703931 : 9780820703930
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:288
Weight: .708 Kg.
Published:Duquesne University Press - November 2007
List Price: 39.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Poetry & poets: classical; early & medieval


Appearing in tandem with the first publication of an authoritative text of the 1667 first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in the text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise Lost from those of the now-standard second edition of 1674. This book represents the first and only collection of original essays on the subject of the 1667 edition of Milton’s major epic. The essays gathered here encompass a wide range of interest, extending from matters of text to matters of historical and literary context. These scholars also discuss the epic’s relationship to the literary and theological world it entered in 1667, which has been overlooked as readers have examined only the second edition. Order this volume separately or with its companion volume, "Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books": An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition.

Preface; Back to the Future: Paradise Lost 1667; "More and More Perceiving": Paraphernalia and Purpose in Paradise Lost, 1668, 1669; Simmons's Shell Game: The Six Title Pages of Paradise Lost; Milton's 1667 Paradise Lost in Its Historical and Literary Contexts; The Emperor's New Clothes: The Royal Fashion of Satan and Charles II; "Now Let us Play": Paradise Lost and Pleasure Gardens in Restoration London; "[N]ew Laws thou see'st impos'd": Milton's Dissenting Angels and the Clarendon Code, 1661-65; Poetic Justice: Plato's Republic in Paradise Lost (1667); The Mysterious Darkness of Unknowing: Paradise Lost and the God Beyond Names; "That which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!": Paradise Lost, First Edition; Index.