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John Milton Complete Shorter Poems
John Milton
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Description for John Milton Complete Shorter Poems
Paperback. "A splendid student edition. Remarkably fresh and uncluttered, it offers strong historical context as well as specific linguistic guidance for the modern reader. Priority goes to the poetry and the decision to return to original spelling proves no hindrance but rather seems to deepen the reader's engagement with the texts. Editor(s): Revard, Stella P. Translator(s): Lewalski, Barbara K. Num Pages: 600 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 172 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1016.
An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries:
An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries:
- Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison
- Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton
- Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations
- Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and ... Read more
- Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405129275
SKU
V9781405129275
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About John Milton
Stella Revard is Professor Emerita of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, with a Ph. D. in English Literature from Yale University. Her two previous books on Milton, The War in Heaven: Paradise Lost and the Tradition of Satan's Rebellion (1980) and Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems (1997), won Hanford awards from the ... Read more
Reviews for John Milton Complete Shorter Poems
“This new edition gives us an accurate picture of how Milton’s publication of his shorter poems evolved across a lifetime. Its main strength, in my opinion, is that Revard will introduce readers who might otherwise not have considered Milton as a literary polyglot to the 1645 Poemata and other Latin and Italian poems in their proper contexts, which cannot but ... Read more