Paradise Lost (Hughes Edition)Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--remains the preferred text of many instructors. |
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Page xvi
... lines . And in creation Milton had the great epic theme of his century , the theme of the Divine Weeks of the French Calvinist poet Guillaume Salluste Sieur du Bartas , which was more popular in the English translation of Joshua ...
... lines . And in creation Milton had the great epic theme of his century , the theme of the Divine Weeks of the French Calvinist poet Guillaume Salluste Sieur du Bartas , which was more popular in the English translation of Joshua ...
Page xix
... lines in Satan's address to the sun in Book IV ( 32-41 ) . Perhaps , as Arthur Barker suggests , the original conception explains the division of the poem into ten books in the first edition - breaking the action into something like the ...
... lines in Satan's address to the sun in Book IV ( 32-41 ) . Perhaps , as Arthur Barker suggests , the original conception explains the division of the poem into ten books in the first edition - breaking the action into something like the ...
Page xxviii
... lines ( I , 437–46 ) which may have inspired John Singer Sargent's painting of them in the ceiling of the Boston Public Library , where Astarte's cloudy robes and dancing priestesses make a delicate contrast to the bull - head of Moloch ...
... lines ( I , 437–46 ) which may have inspired John Singer Sargent's painting of them in the ceiling of the Boston Public Library , where Astarte's cloudy robes and dancing priestesses make a delicate contrast to the bull - head of Moloch ...
Page xxxiii
... lines earlier Milton has referred to " the glass of Galileo " and to his famous discovery that the moon's surface was much more terrestrial and less mysterious than tradition had made it . And in Book VIII , in lines which many modern ...
... lines earlier Milton has referred to " the glass of Galileo " and to his famous discovery that the moon's surface was much more terrestrial and less mysterious than tradition had made it . And in Book VIII , in lines which many modern ...
Page xxxviii
... lines . He saw in them the basis for Milton's belief in absolute human freedom , at least before Adam's fall , and consequently in man's responsibility for evil . His authority for reducing creation to a simple act of " withdrawal " by ...
... lines . He saw in them the basis for Milton's belief in absolute human freedom , at least before Adam's fall , and consequently in man's responsibility for evil . His authority for reducing creation to a simple act of " withdrawal " by ...
Contents
XI | 1 |
XII | 5 |
XIII | 30 |
XIV | 60 |
XV | 83 |
XVI | 113 |
XVII | 138 |
XVIII | 163 |
XIX | 183 |
XX | 202 |
XXI | 234 |
XXII | 265 |
XXIII | 290 |
XXIV | 309 |
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Adam Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid angels appear'd Areopagitica battle in Heaven Beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss Book bright C. S. Lewis C.Ed call'd Celestial Chaos Cherubim Cloud Comus creation Creatures dark Death deep devils Divine Du Bartas dwell Earth Eternal Ev'ning evil eyes fair Faith fall Father fire Flow'rs Fruit Gates Genesis glory God's Gods grace ground hand happy hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell Hesiod highth Hill John Milton keeps its Latin King Latin Latin meaning light live Lord Nature Night Ovid Paradise Lost passage poem Psalm rais'd Raphael repli'd return'd Satan says seem'd Serpent sight soon spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thir thou hast thought Throne Timaeus tradition Tree turn'd VIII virtue wings words World Zeus