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Title John Milton's Paradise lost : a sourcebook / edited by Margaret Kean
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description xiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Routledge guides to literature
Routledge guides to literature.
Contents Machine derived contents note: I: Contexts -- Contextual Overview 5 -- Chronology 12 -- Contemporary Documents 16 -- From John Milton, Manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems (Facsimile, 1899) 16 -- From John Milton, Of Education, To Master Samuel Hartlib (1644) 16 -- From John Milton, Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty -- of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England (1644) 18 -- From John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) 20 -- From the speech made by King Charles I at his execution (1649) 21 -- From John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free -- Commonwealth, 2nd edition (1660) 22 -- From Edmund Waller, 'To The King, Upon His Majesty's Happy Return' (1664) 23 -- From John Milton [?], De Doctrina Christiana (pub. 1825) 24 -- John Milton, 'The Verse', Paradise Lost (1674) 25 -- From John Dryden, Virgil's AEneis (1697) 26 -- From Helen Darbishire, The Early Lives of Milton (1932) 27 -- From The Life of Mr John Milton by John Phillips [actual author, Cyriack Skinner] 28 -- From The Life of Mr John Milton by Edward Phillips (1694) 28 -- 2: Interpretations -- Critical History 33 -- Early Critical Reception 41 -- From John Beale's correspondence with John Evelyn, 18 November 1668; -- 18 December 1669 41 -- From Andrew Marvell, 'On Paradise Lost' in John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674) 42 -- From John Dryden, Dedication of the Eneis (1697) 43 -- From Samuel Johnson, Life of Milton (1779) 44 -- From Richard Bentley, Milton's Paradise Lost. A New Edition (1732) 45 -- From Jonathan Swift, Milton Restor'd and Bentley Depos'd (1732) 46 -- From marginalia in a copy of Richard Bentley, Milton's Paradise Lost (1732) 46 -- From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of -- the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 47 -- From Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah -- Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789) 47 -- From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with -- Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) 48 -- From William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3) 50 -- From John Collier's notes on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's public lectures 50 -- From P. B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1821) 51 -- From Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818) 52 -- Modern Criticism 54 -- From Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value 54 -- From Sigmund Freud's correspondence with Martha Bernays, 16 August 1882 54 -- From F. R. Leavis, 'Milton's Verse' in Revaluation (1936) 55 -- From The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1966) 55 -- From a BBC Profile interview with Philip Pullman (2002) 56 -- From Barbara K. Lewalski, Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms -- (1985) 56 -- From Christopher Ricks, Milton's Grand Style (1963) 57 -- From Stanley Fish, Surprised by Sin: the Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) 59 -- From William Empson, Milton's God (1961) 60 -- From Dennis R. Danielson, Milton's Good God: a Study in Literary Theodicy -- (1982) 61 -- From Francis C. Blessington, Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic (1979) 62 -- From Stephen M. Fallon, Milton among the Philosophers: Poetry and -- Materialism in Seventeenth-century England (1991) 64 -- From Diane K. McColley, Milton's Eve (1983) 66 -- From Karen L. Edwards, Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in -- Paradise Lost (1999) 67 -- From Joan S. Bennett, Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in -- Milton's Great Poems (1989) 69 -- From James G. Turner, One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in -- the Age of Milton (1987) 71 -- From Lucy Newlyn, Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader (1993) 72 -- From Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: the -- Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination (1979) 74 -- 3: Key Passages -- Introduction 79 -- Book-by-book Breakdown of Paradise Lost (1674) 81 -- Internal Chronology of Paradise Lost 83 -- Key Passages 84 -- Book I 1-26: the first epic invocation 84 -- Book I 59-69: the first description of Hell 86 -- Book I 84-126: Satan's first speech 87 -- Book I192-208: the epic simile of the whale 90 -- Book 1242-63: Satan claims dominion in Hell 91 -- Book 1587-612: archangel ruined 92 -- Book I 710-51: the building of Pandaemonium 94 -- Book II 1-10: Satan enthroned in Pandaemonium 96 -- Book II 648-73: Satan encounters Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell 96 -- Book III 1-6, 21-55: the second invocation 98 -- Book III 93-134, 183-202, 236-41: theodicy 101 -- Book IV 32-92, 114-19: Satan addresses the sun 105 -- Book IV 264-324: description of Paradise and the human couple 107 -- Book IV 460-527: Eve's memories and Satan's envy of the human couple 110 -- Book V 15-25, 48-93: Eve's dream 113 -- Book V 468-543: Raphael's explanation of the universal scale 116 -- Book V 600-17: Raphael recounts God's exaltation of the Son 119 -- Book V 853-907: Raphael recounts Satan's apostasy and Abdiel's fidelity 119 -- Book VI 749-66: Raphael recounts how the Son rode forth in the Chariot of -- Paternal Deity 122 -- Book VII 1-39: the third invocation 123 -- Book VII 453-74, 505-50: Raphael recounts events on the sixth day of Creation 125 -- Book VIII 379-92: Adam recounts how he asked God for a helpmate 128 -- Book VIII 462-99: Adam recounts the creation of Eve 129 -- Book VIII 614-29: Raphael explains angelic sex 130 -- Book IX 1-33: the fourth invocation 131 -- Book IX 335-75: the separation scene 133 -- Book IX 494-518, 532-51: Satan begins his seduction of Eve 135 -- Book IX 684-717, 762-92, 816-33: the temptation and fall of Eve 137 -- Book IX 886-916: Adam's recognition that Eve is lost 141 -- Book IX 997-1033: Adam's fall and the couple's lustful desire 143 -- Book X 720-32, 741-93: Adam's despair 14 -- Book X 867-73, 884-95, 909-36: Adam's abusive behaviour towards Eve 14 -- Book XI 806-38: Michael extrapolates on the vision of Noah and the Flood 14 -- Book XII 24-74: Michael tells of Nimrod and the building of the Tower of Babel 15 -- Book XII 469-78: Adam's expression of joy at hearing of God's redemptive plan 15. -- Book XII 575-87: Michael sums up his message 15, -- Book XII 610-49: Eve's final speech and the Expulsion 15. -- 4: Further Reading -- Recommended Modern Editions of Paradise Lost 161 -- Biographies 162 -- Collections of Critical Essays 162 -- Recommended Studies of Paradise Lost 163
Summary "John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), a reworking of the biblical story of the loss of Eden, is a literary landmark for writers, critics and students around the world." "This volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Paradise Lost and seeking not only a guide to the poem, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Milton's text."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-165) and index
Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Religious poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Fall of man in literature.
Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Fall of man in literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Religious poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Kean, Margaret, 1968-
LC no. 2004011362
ISBN 0415303249 alkaline paper
0415303257 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Paradise lost : a sourcebook