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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint, And
knew not eating death;' Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic
proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead Eve into
disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of
knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is
vivid and intense in its language, justifying the actions of God to
men. In his sequel poem, Paradise Regained, Milton shows Satan
trying to seduce Jesus in a similar way to Eve, but ultimately
failing as Jesus remains steadfast.
The only user-friendly textbook covering the full area of
translation and adaptation applicable to any language combination
includes case studies, activities and further reading throughout to
support learning special emphasis on new media, covering social
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Paradise Lost (Paperback)
John Milton; Edited by Stephen B. Dobranski
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Edited for the modern reader by Stephen B. Dobranski (author of The
Cambridge Introduction to Milton), the Norton Library edition of
Paradise Lost features the complete text of the second (1674)
edition, the last published during Milton's lifetime. Extensive
endnotes clarify obscure terms and references, and a thorough
introduction discusses the epic's innovations and its historical
and religious contexts, illuminating the author's radically
ambitious undertaking to "justify the ways of God to men."
The only user-friendly textbook covering the full area of
translation and adaptation applicable to any language combination
includes case studies, activities and further reading throughout to
support learning special emphasis on new media, covering social
media, apps and videogames
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
modernised 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.
A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books,
including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo
Phillips and Adrian Barlow.
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Paradise Lost (Hardcover)
John Milton; Foreword by Dr. Angelica Duran; Illustrated by Gustave Dore; Created by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
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Paradise Lost tells of the expulsion from Eden and the war of
Heaven that followed, exploring the fall of humanity and the
rebellion of the fallen angels from the perspective of Satan and
mortal kind. Milton's epic poem, written in 10,000 lines of blank
verse divided into 12 sections, was a reflection of the political
upheaval that led to the English Civil war. Flame Tree Gothic
Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together
the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction.
Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction
and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are
beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of
reading pleasure.
As poet, statesman, and pamphleteer, John Milton remains one of the
singular champions of liberty in the annals of history. Even in his
mediations on theology Milton strove to demonstrate that liberty --
of conscience -- is one of the inviolable rights of free peoples.
He published several revolutionary manifestos, two works defending
regicide, and of course the famous Areopagitica, or defense of
freedom of expression and the press against censorship. John Alvis
has collected into a superb one-volume edition all of Milton's
political writings of enduring importance. These include the
entirety of Areopagitica, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, A
Defence of the People of England, The Second Defence of the People
of England, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free
Commonwealth, and Mr. John Milton's Character of the Long
Parliament. John Milton (1608-1674) was the author also of Paradise
Lost and Paradise Regained and served as Latin secretary to Oliver
Cromwell during the Commonwealth.
Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was
in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it
was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to
a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries.
It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the
poem--the last of Milton's lifetime--with carefully modernized
spelling and punctuation. Marginal glosses define unfamiliar words,
and extensive annotations at the foot of the page clarify Milton's
syntax and poetics, and explore the range of literary, biblical,
and political allusions that point to his major concerns. David
Kastan's lively Introduction considers the central interpretative
issues raised by the poem, demonstrating how thoroughly it engaged
the most vital--and contested--issues of Milton's time, and which
reveal themselves as no less vital, and perhaps no less contested,
today. The edition also includes an essay on the text, a chronology
of major events in Milton's life, and a selected bibliography, as
well as the first known biography of Milton, written by Edward
Phillips in 1694.
An edition of Milton's later work rk includes the text of six books
of Paradise Lost, The History of Britain and the whole of Samson
Agonistes. Through his introduction, commmentary and full
annotations, Tony Davies sets the works in their political and
cultural contexts, and discusses such themes as the heroic';
sexuality and gender; and Milton's interrogation of the meaning of
history.
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory Foreword "The
Seven Disciplines of Highly Effective Teachers" by Douglas Wilson
Evaluation Tools and Study Questions by Dr. Larry Stephenson Don't
miss this vital book for teachers For decades, John Milton
Gregory's The Seven Laws of Teaching has been an essential guide
for classical educators everywhere, whether in schools, at home, in
co-ops, or online. You've never seen an edition like this: In 1954,
Baker Book House published a revised edition of the text that
"abridged" much of the Christian content and emphasis: we've
restored The Seven Laws of Teaching to its original 1886 text. Not
only does your Canon Press version give the unabridged first
edition text, but we've also added a number of invaluable tools not
available anywhere else: A powerful forward by Douglas Wilson, "The
Seven Disciplines of Highly Effective Teachers," Study Questions
after each chapter by Dr. Larry Stephenson and five helpful
appendices: Appendix A: List of the Seven Laws of Teaching.
Appendix B: Self-Assessment Tool for Teachers by Dr. Stephenson
Appendix C: Sample Teacher Observation Form by Dr. Stephenson
Appendix D: Answers to the Study Questions Appendix E: Endnotes on
Historical Figures
One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may
be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text
includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks
to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for
further reading.
Here in one volume are the texts of two of the greatest--and most
controversial--epic poems in English literature, each a profound
exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Includes notes
by Ricks and a new Afterword by Weldon. Revised reissue.
In Samson Agonistes, Milton's last great work, he addresses
questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who
were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we
respond to the experience of defeat and to fears of having been
abandoned by the divine? How do we know when our actions accord
with divine will or when they are fuelled instead by our fallen
desires and weaknesses? At what point do accommodation and
compromise with an enemy become a failure of will? What constitutes
true heroism? To what extent is violence justified in the cause of
freedom? In this dramatic poem, Milton abandons the regularly
maintained blank verse of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and
employs varying line lengths, mixes blank verse with lyric rhyme
and takes such liberties with scansion that the poem often has the
feel of modern "free verse." To many scholars, the poetry of Samson
Agonistes seems the culminating literary expression of a poet who
had already demonstrated his mastery of traditional forms and felt
free to abandon convention to create the poetic effects he desired.
In addition to Samson Agonistes, this volume includes a selection
of Milton's best-known short poems (also taken from The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature). The biblical material concerning
Samson is also included in an appendix.
Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and
classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as
understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the
Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans; its
focus is a poetic interpretation "Of Man's first disobedience, and
the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought
death into the world, and all our woe / With loss of Eden."
In sublime poetry of extraordinary beauty, Milton's poem references
tales from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and
Virgil's "Aeneid." But one need not be a classical scholar to
appreciate "Paradise Lost." In addition to its imaginative use of
language, the poem features a powerful and sympathetic portrait of
Lucifer, the rebel angel who frequently outshines his moral
superiors. With Milton's deft use of irony, the devil makes evil
appear good, just as satanic practices may seem attractive at first
glance.
"Paradise Lost" has exercised enormous influence on generations of
artists and their works, ranging from the Romantic poets William
Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The
Creation" and J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."
This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose
includes "Lycidas"-widely considered the greatest short poem in
English-the great tragedy Samson Agonistes, the masque Comus, the
brief epic Paradise Regained, and eighteen sonnets as well as other
poems. It also contains the complete text of five of Milton's major
prose works, among them Areopagitica and The Doctrine of Discipline
and Divorce. Each major work is accompanied by an individual
introduction, and all works have ample explanatory annotations. The
major biblical sources that inspired Milton's writing are
reprinted, along with fourteen scholarly interpretations of the
major texts. From the wealth of commentary on Milton's poetry and
prose, the editor has chosen those works that can be studied and
appreciated by the greatest number of readers, including essays
that can easily be paired for discussion in the classroom.
Contributors include Anthony Hecht, William Kerrigan, Mary Nyquist,
Stanley Fish, Barbara K. Lewalski, John Carey, and Sharon
Achinstein, among others. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography
are also included.
A "brain defibrillator" may be closer than we think. An epileptic seizure involves a paroxysmal change in the activity of millions of neurons. Feedback control of seizures would require an implantable device that could predict seizure occurrence and then deliver a stimulus to abort it. To examine the feasibility of building such a device, this text brings together experts in epilepsy, bio-engineering, and dynamical systems theory. Topics include the development of epileptic systems, seizure prediction, neural synchronization, wave phenomena in excitable media, and the control of complex neural dynamics using brief electrical stimuli.
In this epic work, John Milton seeks "to justify the ways of God to
men" through the familiar Christian myth of the fall from grace.
The poem is imbued with Milton's profoundly individual view of
man's place in the universe and his intellectual and spiritual
quest for redemption in the face of despair. This unique clothbound
edition includes its own slipcase and all fifty of the magnificent
engravings produced by Gustave Dore especially for the work.
"Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The American Dilemma of Race
and Democracy "seeks to explore how the collision of races shaped
American democracy in the lives, thought, and actions of three of
the nation's most important presidents. Each of them led the nation
in a different epoch, during times that had their own set of
historical circumstances that shaped constructions of race:
Jefferson at the very beginning of the republic, as the nineteenth
century dawned and the institution of slavery flourished; Lincoln
when the country had expanded into a continental empire and fell
into civil war over slavery; and Wilson when, simultaneously, the
United States emerged as a leader on the world stage and
consolidated legally sanctioned apartheid at home. As great and
brilliant presidents, they constitute a kind of trinity, partly
because no other chief executives have communicated the ideals of
democracy so effectively or eloquently, to both their fellow
citizens and the peoples of the world, even as they violated
principles for which they ostensibly stood.
Cooper and Knock have brought these three leaders together in
this unique and significant collection of essays written by leading
scholars in the field. Contributors include Jean Harvey Baker,
David W. Blight, John Milton Cooper Jr., Eric Foner, Annette
Gordon-Reed, Thomas J. Knock, Erez Manela, Manning Marable, Peter
S. Onuf, and Lucia Stanton.
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Paradise Lost (Hardcover)
John Milton; Edited by John Leonard; Introduction by John Leonard; Notes by John Leonard; Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
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