Paradise Lost

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:John Milton

页数:624

出版时间:2004-12-15

价格:USD 21.89

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393924282

丛书系列:Norton Critical Editions

具体描述

This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

作者简介

Gordon Teskey is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World and Allegory and Violence, and co-editor of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance.

读后感

勘誤，英文以此本為標準： 　　 　　Jonh Milton ,Complete poems and major prose, ed. by Merritt Y. Hughes, The Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985. 　　 p70 第三卷第145行，多了一句that Man should find grace，原文應是： Thy sovran sentence, that Man should...  

As one of the most brilliant epic in English literature history, Paradise Lost deals with the fall of man, which includes Satan and his downfall in both Heaven and Hell. It also gained Milton his world fame. This thesis is aimed at discussing the reason for...  

这部书的伟大就不讲了，想谈谈读完这本书之后的感受。有很多问题盘旋在脑中，一直不断发问不断辩驳。 文章共有两条线索：一是撒旦叛乱，二是亚当夏娃偷食禁果。 所有一切事件的前提是上帝富裕了万事万物自由意志，无论“作恶还是行善都是藉意志的自由选择”。 但撒旦还是...  

用户评价

我不敢说我读过,因为永远读不透。

Milton

目前为止最能读进去的史诗

我表示对着词典都没读懂

Sublime. 英语还可以是这样！！！以及C. S. Lewis和Empson文章写得真好~