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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.4
EAN: 9780451527929
ISBN: 0451527925
Label: Signet Classics
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher: Signet Classics
Product Release Date: 2001-11-07
Studio: Signet Classics

Here in one volume are the complete texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature, each a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. They demonstrate Milton's genius for classicism and innovation, narrative and drama-and are a grand example of what Samuel Johnson called his "peculiar power to astonish."

Edited by Christopher Ricks
With a New Introduction by Dr. Susanne Woods

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Awful
Review: How hard would it be to include the poem's lines? Without lines it's impossible to cite. They should know better than to omit the numbers. They also seem to write in huge print and are incapable of fitting an original line as one line. Terrible quality.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Paradise
Review: This is a sequel to Paradise Lost. It also is written as classic literature.

This book is about when Jesus was baptized and the temptation in the wilderness.

Recommend reading at several sittings.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Amazing book, Terrible book quality
Review: The star rating is given purely for the edition of Paradise Regained published by First World Library. This book is every bit as fascinating as its predecesor Paradise Lost, however I highy dissuade you from buying this particular edition because the words are in size 14 Times New Roman, thus extremely difficult to read, and it is much too expensive for an edition of its quality.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Magnetic Poetry
Review: This is what illegal drugs will get you "Paradise Lost," even if it is regained!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: the Signet edition is my favorite
Review: I have maybe a half-dozen editions of "Paradise Lost."

Whenever I need to reread it quickly, I pick up the Signet Classic edition. It's got to be my favorite.

There are more thorough editions, certainly. But the thing I like about the Signet edition is that it's got this whole Goldilocks thing going on with the footnotes. Not too few, not too many.

In the text, words and phrases that are glossed at the bottom of the page have a little circle (a degree sign) next to them. You look down if you need to; if you don't, you keep reading. I like this because many editions don't indicate in the running text when something has a gloss: one must flip to the back of the book to hunt this out for oneself.

Additionally, there are not so many footnotes that they clutter up half (or more) of the page: I'm sure you're familiar with this sight.

Originally this was edited by Christopher Ricks (of Cambridge). In addition to the bibliography, chronology, and footnotes, he also wrote a short introduction. That unremarkable introduction has now been supplanted by one done by Susanne Woods, to which I am also indifferent.

The Signet edition also fits snugly in your hand, as other, meatier editions do not.

Too bad Amazon buries this edition in the back pages. I had to hunt around a while before I could find it!

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