His appended “Note on the Text” explains the modifications. The coming of thir secret foe, and scap'd. Th' Apocalyps, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, put to second rout, Came furious down to be reveng'd on men, Wo to the inhabitants on earth that now, While time was, our first Parents had bin warnd. Shawcross, an eminent Miltonist at the University of Kentucky, developed a modernized text for the Arion edition. The purpose or theme of Paradise Lost then is religious and has three parts: 1) disobedience, 2) Eternal Providence, and 3) justification of God to men. Paradise Lost: Book IV (1667) For that warning voice, which he who saw. are and what they bring to the text in terms of their own values and world view. Changes by a succession of publishers reflected typographic conventions and scholarship of the day mistakes and inconsistencies were often perpetuated. Paradise Lost is a complete repository of. Inconsistent writing and recopying by different scribes, numerous corrections in the manuscript, and the application of house styles in addition to errors by printers contributed to the unreliability of the spelling, punctuation, and capitalization of the text. VIII The Shepherds on the lawn, Or ere the point of dawn, Sat simply chatting in a rustic row Full little thought they than That the mighty Pan Was kindly come. Milton composed Paradise Lost after 1652, when he had gone blind, dictating it from memory to a secretary.
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