1st Edition
John Milton's Paradise Lost A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
Edited By Margaret Kean
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.
Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:
* outlines the often... Read more
Introduction 1: Contexts, Contextual Overview, Chronology, Contemporary Documents; From John Milton, Manuscript of Milton’s Minor Poems (Facsimile, 1899); From John Milton, Of Education, To Master Samuel Hartlib (1644); From John Milton, Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, To the Parlament of England (1644); From John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649); From the speech made by King Charles I at his execution (1649); From John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, 2nd edition (1660); From Edmund Waller, ‘To The King, Upon His Majesty’s Happy Return’ (1664); From John Milton [?], De Doctrina Christiana (pub. 1825); John Milton, ‘The Verse’, Paradise Lost (1674); From John Dryden, Virgil’s Æneis (1697); From Helen Darbishire, The Early Lives of Milton (1932); From The Life of Mr John Milton by John Phillips [actual author, Cyriack Skinner]; From The Life of Mr John Milton by Edward Phillips (1694); 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception 3: Key Passages, Introduction, Book-by-book Breakdown of Paradise Lost (1674), Internal Chronology of Paradise Lost 4: Further Reading, Recommended Modern Editions of Paradise Lost, Biographies, Collections of Critical Essays, Recommended Studies of Paradise Lost, Glossary, Index
Biography
Margaret Kean is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has published a number of articles on Milton’s poetry.
