By John Milton, Burton Raffel
Cheap, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume variation of The Annotated Milton encompasses the enormous sweep of John Milton’s poetry. listed here are Milton’ s early works, together with his first nice poem, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” the sunshine and lyrical “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” the masque Comus, and the lushly attractive pastoral elegy “Lycidas.” right here, too, integrated of their entirety, are the 3 epic poems thought of to be the most effective works within the English language: Paradise misplaced, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Fully annotated through Burton Raffel, this special variation clarifies the advanced allusions of Milton’s verse and references the non-public, spiritual, historic, and legendary affects that encouraged the nice blind poet of britain, who ranks one of the undisputed giants of worldwide literature.
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