TY - BOOK AU - Milton,John AU - Elledge,Scott TI - Paradise lost: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism T2 - A Norton critical edition SN - 0393962938 AV - PR3560.A2 E45 1993 U1 - 821.4 22 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Fall of man KW - Poetry KW - Fall of man in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references; TOC; The text of Paradise lost -- On Paradise lost / Andrew Marvell -- The verse -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Book V -- Book VI -- Book VII -- Book VIII -- Book IX -- Book X -- Book XI -- Book XII -- Biographical, historical, and literary backgrounds: Political and religious issues in the time of Milton / Isabel Rivers -- A brief life of Milton / David Masson -- A paraphrase on Psalm 114 -- From At a vacation exercise in the college -- Sonnet 7 [How soon hath time, the subtle thief of yout] -- From Of reformation in England -- From The reason of church government urged against prelaty -- From The doctrine and discipline of divorce 1643 -- From The second edition of The doctrine and discipline of divorce 1644 -- From Areopagitica -- Sonnet 15 [Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings] -- Sonnet 16 [Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud] -- Sonnet 19 [When I consider how my light is spent] -- Sonnet 22 [Cyricak, this three years'day these eyes] -- Sonnet 23 [Methought I saw my late espoused saint] -- From The ready and easy way to establish a free cmmonwealth -- From Christian doctrine -- Selections from the Bible: From The book of Genesis -- From The book of Exodus -- From The book of Psalms -- From The book of Isaiah -- From The book of Ezekiel -- From The gospel according to St. Matthew -- From The gospel according to St. Mark -- From The gospel according to St. Luke -- From The gospel according to St. John -- From the Acts of the Apostles -- From The first letter of Paul to the Corinthians -- From The first letter of Paul to Timothy -- From The general epistle of James -- From the Revelation of St. John the divine -- Important concepts and topics in Paradise lost: The universe -- Physiology and psychology -- Reason -- The scale of nature -- Angels -- God -- Freedom -- Covenant -- Knowledge -- The fortunate fall -- Paradise -- Truth and poetry -- Criticism: Great writers on Milton, 1688-1929 -- Epigram on Milton / John Dryden -- Milton / Voltaire. Paradise lost / Samuel Johnson -- From the marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake -- London 1802 / William Wordsworth -- Milton / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Milton / John Keats -- Milton / Walter Savage Landor -- Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Milton / Matthew Arnold -- Some remarks on Milton / Virginia Woolf -- Recent criticism: The story of all things / Northrop Frye -- Discovery as form in Paradise lost / Stanley Eugene Fish -- Milton's grand style / Christopher Ricks -- Milton and his precursors / Harold Bloom -- The genres of paradise lost: literary genre as a means of accommodation / Barbara Lewalki -- Adam unparadised / Frank Kermode -- Milton's God -- A little look into chaos / Robert M. Adams -- The relevance of Milton / Christopher Hill -- Passion and subordination / James Grantham Turner -- Female autonomy in Milton's sexual poetics / Janet E. Halley; English N2 - Summary: Epic poem describing the creation and the Fall of Man, debating free will, obedience, forbidden knowledge, love, evil, and guilt UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/paradise-lost-an-authoritative-text-backgrounds-and-sources-criticism/oclc/25631978&referer=brief_results ER -