John Milton

John Milton Complete Shorter P

Herausgegeben von Revard, Stella P.

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume to represent an original spelling edition of Milton's Complete Shorter Poems. Offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries, the text presents a range of Milton's shorter verse in their original form and incorporates spelling and punctuation, rhythms, and sound qualities which may be lost in other editions of Milton's poetry. One of the key feature of the text is the inclusion of the original Latin poems, accompanied by a brand new English translation, provided on facing-pages for cross-comparison.

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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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1038g
• ISBN-13: 9781405129275
• ISBN-10: 1405129271
• Artikelnr.: 25859178

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. Note on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations.
Chronology. Textual Introduction. Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of
Mr. John Milton. English and Italian Poems. The Stationer to the Reader. On
the morning of CHRISTS Nativity. A Paraphrase on Psalm 114. Psalm 136. The
Passion. On Time. Upon the Circumcision. At a solemn Musick. An Epitaph on
the Marchioness of Winchester. On May morning. On Shakespear. On the
University Carrier. Another on the same. L'Allegro. Il Penseroso. SONNETS.
I O Nightingale. II Donna leggiadra. III Qual in colle aspro. Canzone. IV
Diodati, e te'l dirò. V Per certo i bei vostr'occhi. VI Giovane piano. VII
How soon hath Time. VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms. IX Lady
that in the prime of earliest youth. X Daughter to that good Earl. Arcades.
Lycidas. A Mask of the same Author. Title page. To the Right Honourable,
John Lord Vicount BRACLY. The Copy of a Letter Writt'n By Sir HENRY
WOOTTON. The Persons. A MASK Presented At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. Introduction
to the Poemata, 1645. The Poemata, 1645. Translator's Note: The Latin
Poems. Testimonia. Haec quae sequuntur de Authore testimonia. Joannes
Baptista Mansus ad Joannem Miltonium. Ad Joannem Miltonem Epigramma Joannis
Salsilli. Ad Joannem Miltonum (Selvaggi). Al Signor Gio. Miltoni (Antonio
Francini). JOANNI MILTONI LONDINIENSI (Carolus Datus). ELEGIARUM Liber
primus. Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum. Elegia secunda. In obitum
Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis. Elegia tertia. In obitum Præsulis
Wintoniensis. Elegia quarta. Ad Thomam Junium. Elegia quinta. In adventum
veris. Elegia sexta. Ad Carolum Diodatum. Elegia septima. Haec ego mente
[Retraction]. In proditionem Bombardicam. In eandem. In eandem. In eandem.
In inventorem Bombardæ. Ad Leonoram Romæ cantentem. Ad eandem. Ad eandem.
Sylvarum Liber. In obitum Procancellarii medici. In quintum Novembris. In
obitum Præsulis Eliensis. Naturam non pati senium. De Idea Platonica. Ad
Patrem. Psalm 114. Philosophus ad regem. Ad Salsillum. Mansus. EPITAPHIUM
DAMONIS. Introduction to Poems, &C. UPON Several Occasions, 1673. English
Poems Added in 1673. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough.
SONNETS. XI A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon. XII On the same.
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires. XIV [On ye religious memory of Mrs.
Catharine Thomason]. XV (18) On the late Massacher in Piemont. XVI (19)
When I consider how my light is spent. XVII (20) Lawrence of virtuous
Father. XVIII (21) Cyriack, whose Grandsire. XIX (23) Methought I saw. The
Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I. Ad PYRRHAM. Ode V. At a Vacation Exercise in
the Colledge. On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT.
Psalms. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. LXXX. LXXXI. LXXXII. LXXXIII.
LXXXIV. LXXXV. LXXXVI. LXXXVII. LXXXVIII. Latin and Greek Poems added in
1673. Poem added to Elegiarum Liber in 1673. Apologus de Rustico & Hero.
Poems added to Sylvarum Liber in 1673. In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem. Ad
Joannem Rousium. Introduction to the Uncollected Poems. Sonnets Published
in 1694. To my Lord FAIRFAX. To Oliver Cromwell. To Sir HENRY VANE. To Mr.
CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness. Unpublished Latin Poems. Carmina
Elegaica. Verses in Lesser Asclepiads (Ignauus Satrapam). Introduction to
Poems Published in 1671. Introduction to Paradise Regained. PARADISE
REGAINED. Book I. Book 2. Book 3. Book 4. Introduction to Samson Agonistes.
SAMSON AGONISTES. Appendix. Bridgewater Maske. Manuscript of Songs by Henry
Lawes. Trinity Manuscript: A Page from A Mask. Select Bibliography. Textual
Notes. Textual Notes to English and Italian Poems. Textual Notes to
Poemata, 1645. Textual Notes to English Poems Added in 1673. Textual Notes
to Sonnets Published in 1694. Textual Notes to Paradise Regained. Textual
Notes to Samson Agonistes

Rezensionen

"A splendid student edition. Remarkably fresh and uncluttered, it offers strong historical context as well as specific linguistic guidance for the modern reader. Priority goes to the poetry and the decision to return to original spelling proves no hindrance but rather seems to deepen the reader's engagement with the texts. An outstanding edition which is easy to handle and to use."

Margaret Kean, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford

"This new edition gives us an accurate picture of how Milton's publication of his shorter poems evolved across a lifetime. Its main strength, in my opinion, is that Revard will introduce readers who might otherwise not have considered Milton as a literary polyglot to the 1645 Poemata and other Latin and Italian poems in their proper contexts, which cannot but enrich such readers' understanding of Milton's work." (Milton Quarterly, 2011) "A splendid student edition. Remarkably fresh and uncluttered, it offers strong historical context as well as specific linguistic guidance for the modern reader. Priority goes to the poetry and the decision to return to original spelling proves no hindrance but rather seems to deepen the reader's engagement with the texts. An outstanding edition which is easy to handle and to use."

"Original spelling and punctuation are retained, and in all other ways the volume prioritizes accessibility and clarity, with chronology, introductions to each section and ample but not swamping footnotes to each poem. The introductory essays do not assume scholarly knowledge, and they make every poem seem vibrant, and vital to Milton's development as a writer."(TLS, April 2010) Margaret Kean, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford