The Complete Poems and Major Prose / Edition 1

by John Milton, Merritt Y. Hughes

Overview

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872206786
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	1088
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

As a young student, John Milton (1608-1674) dreamed of bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous Paradise Lost, now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature. In sublime poetry of extraordinary beauty, Paradise Lost has inspired generations of artists and their works, ranging from the Romantic poets to the books of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Editorial Reviews

This is . . . the best, absolute best Milton anthology. —Cicero Bruce, McMurry University

Thinking that perhaps it was time after fifteen years of using the Hughes edition of Milton to use a newer edition in my graduate classes, I switched for one semester to the Riverside Milton. It took only one semester to realize that what students gained by way of more recent scholarship could not make up for what they had lost by being deprived of Hughes’ introductions. I won’t be switching again for a long time to come. —Noralyn Masselink, SUNY College at Cortland

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