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16063925 No.16063925 [Reply] [Original]

Whats the best edition of Paradise Lost?

>> No.16063955

All the translations are good in my experience. They all accurately convey what Milton was writing in the original language.

>> No.16063968

>>16063925
Is this worth reading? I’ going to buy some books tonight, and I’m looking for some starting pieces. I haven’t read anything past textbooks in years.

>> No.16063974

>>16063955
English is my first language. I just got a copy with really terrible formatting and pictures of lincoln slapped in random places. Which publisher prints it best?

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16064007

The Fowler edition is best if juicy footnotes are what you're after.

The Lewalski edition is nice for using the original language--almost every other version modernizes the English.

>> No.16064018

>>16063968
As a starting piece, probably not. Milton's English is end level due to his Latin syntax.

>> No.16064023

>>16063968
>Is this worth reading?

Read this aloud (try to keep the rhythm by slapping your thigh):

>He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew
>Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
>Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
>Far round illumin'd hell: highly they rag'd
>Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped Arms
>Clash'd on thir sounding Shields the din of war,
>Hurling defiance toward the Vault of Heav'n.

Does it sound cool?

>> No.16064200

>>16064018
Oh. I'm actually ESL.
>>16064023
Sure. It sounds like some kind of High Plane Cosmic War or something. I put on a deep, boooooooming voice and read it as if I was a wizard telling the story to some new recruits. I don't understand what you mean by the rhythm though. Is the whole book like that, akin to a poen instead of prose?

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>>16064200

>Is the whole book like that, akin to a poen instead of prose?
Yeah. It's all like that

>I don't understand what you mean by the rhythm though.
There's a rolling beat to it. It gives it a hypnotic quality.

>> No.16064370

>>16064360
Oh, I see it. I followed a different kind of beat, but that works as well. I suppose I'll get the translated version, and if I like it enough I'll get some hardcover/special edition in the original English somewhere down the line. Thanks anon!