num_pages: 448
description: Edited by William Kerrigan John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon Derived from the Modern Librarys esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton this new volume extensively revised and updated by its editors contains Miltons two late masterpieces the brief epic Paradise Regained and the tragic drama Samson Agonistes. Age after age these works have inspired new controversy and exciting interpretive debates. With expert commentary to guide the reader through historical contexts and verbal details as well as the larger political and philosophical implications the concerns of these canonical pieces live once again for todays audiences. The volume also contains Miltons complete shorter poems which include such major achievements as Lycidas A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634 LAllegro and Il Penseroso and the authors twenty-four influential sonnets. Thoughtfully edited and carefully designed this is an essential publication of Miltons classic poetry. Praise for The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton For generations of readers Milton has been the measure of both eloquence and nobility of mind. For the next generation this new Modern Library volume will be the standard. It brings Milton as a poet and a thinker vividly alive before us.Robert Hass former Poet Laureate of the United States A superb edition of the great poet with modernized spelling lucid introductions to each work illuminating footnotes and fresh prose translations in Latin Greek and Italian. This will surely be the edition of choice for teachers students and general readers too.Leo Damrosch Harvard University
language: English
title: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
publisher: Modern Library