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Gordon Teskey
The only form of monumental artistic expression practiced from antiquity to the Enlightenment, allegory evolved to its fullest complexity in Dante’s Commedia and Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Drawing on a wide…
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Teskey argues that Milton’s creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate…
For sublimity and philosophical grandeur Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe. Gordon Teskey shows how Milton’s aesthetic joins beauty to…
Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While…
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John Milton
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized…
Jonathan Locke Hart
Jonathan Locke Hart explores in a contemporary context the divine and human comedy, taking his inspiration from Dante.
Poetry lovers, Milton fans, and scholars of either will welcome, enjoy, and learn from this work.
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