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Paradise Lost (2005)

Paradise Lost (2005)

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes

Year: 2005
Authors: John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes
Publishers: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Pages: 427
Print type: BOOK

Description:

A revision of the Prentice Hall edition of 1962.David Scott Kastan preserves the quality and character of Hughes's richly annotated edition in this masterful revision, which includes a thorough updating of the text, notes, and bibliographies to reflect the scholarship of the last half-century. Kastan's new introductory essay engages the pressing questions the poem raises for contemporary readers, focusing on the literary, religious, and political dimensions of Paradise Lost that have made its reading a demanding yet always exhilarating experience.