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Milton
THE POETICAL WORKS OF MR. JOHN MILTON. Containing, PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAIN'D, SAMSON AGONISTES, and his POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Together With Explanatory NOTES ON ON EACH BOOK OF THE PARADISE LOST, and a TABLE never before Printed.
Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s-Head near the - Inner-Temple-Gate.by Tho. Hodgkin et. al., 1688-1695
17550.00 €
Buddenbrooks Inc.
(Newburyport, United States of America)
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Edizione: rare large paper copy of this exceedingly important edition, the first of the collected works with original 1688 large paper sheets included. edward hodnett considered this to be the "earliest serious effort to illustrate an important work of english poetry" (five centuries of english book illustration, 1988, p. 63), and the copperplate engravings have a dramatic power that was only matched 200 years later by john martin. <br> we rarely encounter a collection of the three principal poems. this collection which includes the poems on several occasions and the notes on milton’s paradise lost, can be truly classified as the first collected edition and a wonderful sammelband preserved through time by highly appreciative collectors. such collections are rare. this collected edition is augmented by the inclusion of the highly important notes on milton’s paradise lost, poems on several occasions and additional poems as well.<br> in paradise lost, paradise regained and samson agonistes milton revived the heroic verse of homer and virgil to frame the tale of satan and paradise that has become the best-known epic poem written in english. he had difficulty in finding a publisher because of the plague of 1665, which killed many pressmen, and the great fire of the following year, which destroyed many printing houses—and those publishers who were still operating were wary of the project because of milton's anti-restoration sympathies.<br> simmons, to whom he finally came, drove a hard bargain, and according to the agreement reached and the number of copies sold milton was paid a total of £15. milton’s work survives and is revered to this day as amongst the most significant poetry and prose ever penned and additionally important, at a defining moment in the development of the english language. a truly towering figure, milton remains one of the most celebrated and analyzed poets in english literature. dryden described ‘paradise lost’ as ‘one of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced,’ while blake, keying in on the poem’s heretical implications, described milton as ‘a true poet, and of the devil’s party without knowing it.’