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by: Revard, Stella P.

ISBN: 9781405129275 | 1405129271

This is the first volume to represent an original spelling edition of Milton's Complete Shorter Poems, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries. Presents a range of Milton's shorter verse in their original form, incorporating spelling and punctuation, rhythms and sound qualities which may be lost in other editions of Milton's poetry Key feature is the inclusion of the original Latin poems, accompanied by a brand new English translation, provided on facing-pages ... MOREfor cross-comparison Edited by prominent Milton scholar, Stella Revard In addition, the series editor is Barbara Lewalski, one of the world's leading Milton scholars. The book follows the successful Paradise Lost (original text) edition, which published in 2007 under the editorship of Barbara Lewalski

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An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries:

• Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison
• Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton
• Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations
• Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and Sampson Agonistes
• Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections

Stella Revard is professor Emerita of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She has a B.A. from Hunter College, New York; an M.A. in Classics from Washington University, St. Louis; and an M.A. and Ph. D. in English literature from Yale University, New Haven. She is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America, Past President of the Milton Society of America and the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published more than seventy articles on Renaissance and classical literature and other subjects. She has three books (listed above) and a fourth book forthcoming. Both her books on Milton and an article on musical versions of Paradise Lost won Hanford awards from the Milton Society of America. She continues active in Milton and Neo-Latin studies, participating in the symposia and congresses of both associations.