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girlfriend and I are doing a mini Paradise Lost reading group. she's never read it before. what edition should she buy? norton critical? penguin?

>> No.21735635

I hate women!

>> No.21735658

>>21735635
what edition would you recommend anon

>> No.21735923

>>21735633
penguin, its the one we used for classes in uni, but the footnotes aren't shown when reading the poem.

>> No.21735939

https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/pl/intro/text.shtml

>> No.21735948

https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220?qt-course=2

>> No.21736023

>>21735633
I have the whole thing tattooed on my glans. She should come over and continue where your mom left off

>> No.21736155

>>21736023
Lmao

>> No.21736159

>>21735633
Penguin. Avoid Everymans Library and Oxford because they have modernized some words so the metre is all wrong.

>> No.21736621

>>21735658
Which ever one you want.

>> No.21736628

In the other thread discussing this there were recommendations for the Hackett Classics with annotations and footnotes etc by Kastan

>> No.21737030

>>21736155
I apologize for being cranky (I had a long day) but I’m glad I could at least make someone chuckle. OP: buy the closest to the original unedited version you can imo, preferably a physical copy from a used bookstore from a kind, lonely old man

>> No.21737490

>>21735633
I would recommend the Norton Critical Edition above all others due the extensive footnotes and appendices, which include whole Biblical verses selected from Genesis, Luke, Revelations and other books, all of which are essential to the text. It also includes reviews which several authors had written on PL, including Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, C.S. Lewis among others. The appendices also include an extensive selection of critical essays on Paradise Lost. And the entire Areopagitica is also included in the back of the book.
Gordon Teskey is not a perfect editor, but given the breadth of this edition, there's really no better option.

>> No.21737492

>>21735633
It's free on wikipedia.

>> No.21737993

>>21735633
Why not just ask which edition to buy without mentioning a girlfriend? How is the girlfriend relevant to the question? Is there some implication that she has certain tastes that would require a specific edition? If so, what are her tastes? This seems like a faggot or bot post.

>> No.21738097

>>21737993
This. Mentioning girlfriends should be ban worthy. We all know it's a girl (male) anyway.

>> No.21739497
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21739497

A book club with women?
Famous last words, fren.

>> No.21739929

>>21735635
Why?

>> No.21741224

>>21737993
Good question

>> No.21742941

>>21737993
OP here, I don't actually have a girlfriend I just mentioned it in my post to piss you, specifically, off.

>> No.21744471

>>21735635
FUCK WOMEN