John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2927-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1016 g

An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries: - Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison
- Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton
- Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations
- Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and Sampson Agonistes
- Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections

Autoren/Hrsg.

Revard, Stella P.

Milton, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on This Edition xii

Acknowledgments xii

List of Illustrations xiii

Chronology xiv

Textual Introduction xxi

Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of Mr. John Milton 1

English and Italian Poems 11

Introduction to the Poemata, 1645 125

Elegiarum Liber Primus 143

Sylvarum Liber 203

Introduction to Poems, &c. Upon Several Ocassions, 1673 289

Latin and Greek Poems Added in 1673 339

Poems Added to Sylvarum Liber In 1673 342

Sonnets Published in 1694 357

Unpublished Latin Poems 369

Appendix 513

Select Bibliography 545

Textual Notes 555

Über Autor(innen)

Stella Revard is Professor Emerita of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, with a Ph. D. in English Literature from Yale University. Her two previous books on Milton, The War in Heaven: Paradise Lost and the Tradition of Satan's Rebellion (1980) and Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems (1997), won Hanford awards from the Milton Society of America.