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Title: Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems by John Milton, Burton Raffel ISBN: 0-613-21118-9 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good "mid-sized" version of "Milton's Works."
Comment: I recognize that Milton is second to Shakespeare in linguistic craft and mastery, and, wanting to round our my literary experience, I searched for month to find a lovely, hardbound, guilt-edged "Complete Works of Milton" to match my lovely, hardbound, guilt-edged "Complete Works of Shakespeare." But to no avail!
I almost bought a paperback "Complete Works of Milton," which had Milton's Greek, Latin, and Italian poems. It surprised me that this man was a genius in many languages, but since I only speak English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French, I demurred.
I finally settled on this edition since it does the job that an English student or aficionado would want. It contains the complete English sonnets, his English plays, and the supernal-issimo twins "Paradise Lost," and "Paradise Regained." In addition to the polyglot works, this book omits his prose works. But that is for another time and another day!
The "helps" are great. Every line in Epic Paradise plays is numbered, which prevents any miscounting errors. Moreover, it has many helpful footnotes, which highlight many of Milton's word plays and puns. In this dimension, Milton is one of the funniest classicists in the universe.
I enjoy Milton. His wordplay and "force of langue" outstrips Shakespeare in many instances. I also enjoy his obvious Christianity, which is what makes Lucifer is such a charming character. You only counterfeit a true coin!
Rating: 4
Summary: Extremely Helpful!
Comment: I had to read Paradise Lost for my English class, and I bought this, honestly, so I wouldn't have to buy a Cliffs Notes separately. The annotations are really helpful, and explain a lot of things. Don't be intimidated by the size of the book; it's just the notes. If it's your first time reading Milton, get this. If not, you may be annoyed by the notes; I was after a little while, once I got the gist of the story. I give it 4 stars because it's helpful, but you either love or hate Milton, and I hate it. But the notes (I can't say this enough) make the reading so much easier!
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Title: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Terry Wick ISBN: 0075543729 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 May, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.80 |
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Title: Grand Strategy of Phillip II by Geoffrey Parker ISBN: 0300082738 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Art of War by Sun Tzu ISBN: 0385292163 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: On War by Karl Von Clausewitz, Carl Von Clausewitz, Carl Von Clausewitz, Anatol Rapoport ISBN: 0140444270 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser, Thomas P. Roche, C. P. O'Connell ISBN: 0140422072 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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