The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

ミルトンを深めたい人には最適。ただし、あまりの本の厚さに唖然とすること必定。

should’ve included the whole psalm paraphrase which penguin does. still a nice edition to acquire overall!!

Milton was not only a poet, he was also a significant political figure at a crucial moment in British history: the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. He was Secretary of State for Foreign Tongues – effectively Foreign Secretary – in the English Republic of 1649-60. The value of this volume is that it prints both his poetry and his principal political writing in prose: Areopagitica, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. It also contains a valuable excerpt from the Second Defence of The English People. Milton was a radical in his time: an advocate of divorce, a champion of freedom of expression, a defender of the English Republic, and a justifier of armed revolution. Clearly, a writer capable of speaking to our own time. Sensibly edited by two distinguished citizens of the American Republic, this is the one-volume Milton for most people’s shelves.

If one knows the poetic writings of John Milton, then one will also recognise these two titles of two of John Milton's significant poetic groupings. Summarizing my delight in having this anthology once more in my possession.

Milton is such a bro. I just spent a semester with him at my college, and we got REAL close. In all seriousness, this is a great volume of his collected works that I ended up not selling back because I found it so engrossing. Milton had some very progressive thoughts for his time, which makes his works compelling for modern readers. His interpretation of Eve in Paradise Lost especially was phenomenal, and nor just for the way he used Ovid's the Metamorphosis. I highly recommend this volume, and Milton in general!