The Annotated Milton

Affordable compact and authoritative this one-volume edition of <b>The Annotated Milton</b> encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton&#146;s poetry. Here are Milton&#146; s early works including his first great poem &#147;On the Morning of Christ&#146;s Nativity&#148; the light and lyrical &#147;L&#146;Allegro&#148; and &#147;Il Penseroso&#148; the masque <i>Comus</i> and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy &#147;Lycidas.&#148; Here too included in their entirety are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language: <i>Paradise Lost Paradise Regained</i> and <i>Samson Agonistes.<br><br></i>Fully annotated by Burton Raffel this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Milton&#146;s verse and references the personal religious historical and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature.