Preface A Note on Texts and Abbreviations 1: Alone 2: Art 3: Chance, Fate, and Providence 4: Change 5: Choice 6: Dark and Light 7: Desire 8: Ease 9: Envy 10: Equal 11: Evil 12: Fall 13: Fancy and Reason 14: Free 15: God 16: Grace 17: Hope 18: I 19: Idol and Image 20: If and Perhaps 21: Knowledge and Wisdom 22: Love 23: Naked 24: New and Old 25: Not 26: Re- 27: See and Seem 28: Self- 29: Within 30: ? Afterword Bibliography
Paul Hammond was educated at Peter Symonds' School, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Prize Fellow in English. He is currently Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002.
Milton's Complex Words prompts us to ask how detailed excavation of
the linguistic riches of Paradise Lost can change our understanding
of Milton's view of language ... Hammond leaves us to extrapolate
our own conclusions from his elucidation of Paradise Lost as a
beautifully intricate web of meaning suspended between multiple and
varying usages of repeated terms, which bring with them into each
individual occurrence the echoes of their other lives.
*Hannah Crawforth, Milton Quarterly*
For Miltonists, it offers a stimulating journey back through
Milton's poem, with enough detail and elegant argument to be of
interest. For students, it will be a good guide for understanding
certain terms in Milton's oeuvre, with helpful suggestions for
further study provided in the footnotes to each short chapter ...
It may prove a welcome guide to those just entering, or even
re-entering, the labyrinth of Paradise Lost.
*Esther van Raamsdonk, Modern Language Review*
"Milton's Complex Words brilliantly demonstrates Hammond's skills
as a close reader, supremely attentive to how the varied
definitions of his key words ... contributes to the meanings of
Paradise Lost." -- Peter C. Herman, Modern Philology
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