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 xviii
... seems to be simply the evil one . There is no trace of the intriguing , exploring , despairing Satan of the poem that we have . There is no trace of the Satan who still seems to many readers to be tragic in at least an Elizabethan if ...
... seems to be simply the evil one . There is no trace of the intriguing , exploring , despairing Satan of the poem that we have . There is no trace of the Satan who still seems to many readers to be tragic in at least an Elizabethan if ...
Page xix
... seems heroic . There is grandeur but no heroism in his later soliloquies and after the seduction of Eve he departs to Hell , leaving the world to his vice - gerents Sin and Death . There is no doubt of Milton's intent to degrade him ...
... seems heroic . There is grandeur but no heroism in his later soliloquies and after the seduction of Eve he departs to Hell , leaving the world to his vice - gerents Sin and Death . There is no doubt of Milton's intent to degrade him ...
Page xx
... seems as Ernest Schanzer observes — that the purpose is to extend the over - arching dramatic irony that ties the poem together . When she meets Satan in Chaos she tells him that she has been drawn to him from Hell by " a secret harmony ...
... seems as Ernest Schanzer observes — that the purpose is to extend the over - arching dramatic irony that ties the poem together . When she meets Satan in Chaos she tells him that she has been drawn to him from Hell by " a secret harmony ...
Page xxiv
... seems to be both its personification and its ruler . In Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Gods Chaos is 122 Sine ustitia , confufio . Ad eofdem Iudices . ΧΑΟΣ W HEN Fire , and Aire , and Earthe , and Water , all weareone : Before that worke ...
... seems to be both its personification and its ruler . In Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Gods Chaos is 122 Sine ustitia , confufio . Ad eofdem Iudices . ΧΑΟΣ W HEN Fire , and Aire , and Earthe , and Water , all weareone : Before that worke ...
Page xxxi
... seems more biological than geometric . " 28. But the image of the spirit brooding on the face of the primeval waters comes from Genesis , and in the expansion of the story of the six days of creation Milton stayed as close as he could ...
... seems more biological than geometric . " 28. But the image of the spirit brooding on the face of the primeval waters comes from Genesis , and in the expansion of the story of the six days of creation Milton stayed as close as he could ...
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