The Text of Paradise Lost : : A Study in Editorial Procedure / / R.G. Moyles.

Paradise Lost, possibly the 'most read, most criticized, and most exalted' poem in the English language, has been published more often perhaps in the three hundred years of its existence than any other work of English literature. In the eighteenth century alone, when the English nation wen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1985
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Original Texts: A Question of Authority
  • 2. The Transmission of Paradise Lost: The Early Editions
  • 3. Towards a Definitive Text: Richard Bentley to Thomas Newton, and After
  • 4. Orthography: The Modern Editorial Preoccupation
  • 5. Punctuation: A Question of Grammar and Rhetoric
  • 6. Editing Paradise Lost
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index