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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."
Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and
images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who
wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual
Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary,
Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes
astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery -
traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative
while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular,
Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the
inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate
seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material
philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and
cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our
understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's
epic.
Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and
images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who
wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual
Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary,
Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes
astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery -
traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative
while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular,
Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the
inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate
seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material
philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and
cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our
understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's
epic.
Few early modern poets engaged more fully with their historical
circumstances than John Milton. A pamphleteer, government employee,
and writer of occasional verse, Milton did not retreat from public
life even after his political hopes were dashed by the Restoration.
This volume investigates the various ways in which Milton's works
and experiences emerged from the culture and events of his time. In
a series of concise, engaging essays, an international group of
scholars examines both the social conditions of Milton's life and
the broader intellectual currents that shaped his writings and
reputation. A uniquely wide range of topics is covered: from
biography to translations, from astronomy to philosophy, and from
the English Church to the civil wars. Milton in Context is an
accessible reference work that both students and scholars will turn
to again and again to enrich their understanding of Milton's
writings and his world.
John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in
English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's
works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive
overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes
essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the
cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh
analyses of his major pamphlets and poems - including Lycidas,
Areopagitica and Paradise Lost - and describes in depth traditional
and recent responses to his reputation and writings. Separate
sections focus on important concepts or key passages from his major
works to illustrate how readers can interpret - and get excited
about - Milton's writings. This detailed and engaging introduction
to Milton will help readers not only better understand the author's
life and works but also better appreciate why Milton matters.
While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority -
legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also
were expected to participate in and make use of an author's
writings. In this book, Stephen B. Dobranski examines how the
seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished
works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for
written texts while it simultaneously reinforced Renaissance
practices of active reading. Bringing together textual studies,
literary criticism and book trade history, Dobranski provides fresh
insight into Renaissance constructions of authorship and offers
discerning interpretations of publications by Sir Philip Sidney,
Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick and John Milton. The
omissions in all these writers' works provide a unique window into
English literary history: through these blank spaces we glimpse the
tension between implication and inference, between writers'
intentions and readers' responses and between an individual author
and a collaborative community.
This study offers an original exploration of Milton's relationship
to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed
that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and
little has been said about his dependence on other people for
producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical
circumstances with special attention to his texts' material
production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative
and original case studies that Milton benefited from a
collaborative process of writing and publishing. He worked with
amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers, often in
dramatic and surprising ways: paradoxically, Milton's implied
persona of the independent, even isolated, poet required the
cooperation of these various individuals. With the attentiveness of
textual scholarship and booktrade history to the material forms of
publication, Dobranski offers fresh insight into the practice of
authorship and the meaning of Milton's works.
It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton - who opposed infant
baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of
polygamy - should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern
scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical
opinions. This volume investigates aspects of Milton's works
inconsistent with conventional beliefs, whether in terms of
seventeenth-century theology or the common assumptions of Milton
scholars. Contributors situate Milton and his writings within his
specific historical circumstances, paying special attention to
Milton's pragmatic position within seventeenth-century religious
controversy. The volume's four sections deal with heretical
theology, heresy's consequences, heresy and community, and readers
of heresy; their common premise is that Milton, as poet, thinker
and public servant, eschewed set beliefs and regarded indeterminacy
and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.
While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority -
legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also
were expected to participate in and make use of an author's
writings. In this book, Stephen B. Dobranski examines how the
seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished
works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for
written texts while it simultaneously reinforced Renaissance
practices of active reading. Bringing together textual studies,
literary criticism and book trade history, Dobranski provides fresh
insight into Renaissance constructions of authorship and offers
discerning interpretations of publications by Sir Philip Sidney,
Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick and John Milton. The
omissions in all these writers' works provide a unique window into
English literary history: through these blank spaces we glimpse the
tension between implication and inference, between writers'
intentions and readers' responses and between an individual author
and a collaborative community.
This study offers an original exploration of Milton's relationship
to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed
that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and
little has been said about his dependence on other people for
producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical
circumstances with special attention to his texts' material
production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative
and original case studies that Milton benefited from a
collaborative process of writing and publishing. He worked with
amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers, often in
dramatic and surprising ways: paradoxically, Milton's implied
persona of the independent, even isolated, poet required the
cooperation of these various individuals. With the attentiveness of
textual scholarship and booktrade history to the material forms of
publication, Dobranski offers fresh insight into the practice of
authorship and the meaning of Milton's works.
John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in
English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's
works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive
overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes
essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the
cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh
analyses of his major pamphlets and poems - including Lycidas,
Areopagitica and Paradise Lost - and describes in depth traditional
and recent responses to his reputation and writings. Separate
sections focus on important concepts or key passages from his major
works to illustrate how readers can interpret - and get excited
about - Milton's writings. This detailed and engaging introduction
to Milton will help readers not only better understand the author's
life and works but also better appreciate why Milton matters.
It is distinctly paradoxical that John Milton--who opposed infant baptism, supported regicide, defended divorce and approved of polygamy--should be heard as a voice of orthodoxy. Yet modern scholarship has often understated or explained away his heretical opinions. This collection of essays investigates aspects of his works inconsistent with conventional beliefs, showing how Milton, as poet, thinker and public servant, eschewed dogma and regarded indeterminacy and uncertainty as fundamental to human existence.
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