Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition

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For a book worth 1.5K+, its pages aren't good. But talking about the content it's a blessing to students and teachers alike. Contains all of the major poems and prose apart from paradise lost, select criticisms- really helpful. Norton is the best critical edition available.

This is a good anthology of Milton’s prose tracts and shorter poetry: while it doesn’t contain everything, it’s got all his major English poems (that aren’t Paradise Lost, which is published in a superb companion volume) and his most important polemics, including Areopagitica. The introduction(s), notes, and accompanying essays are very good on the whole, though some of the latter (such as John Carey’s bizarre TLS piece on Samson Agonistes and 9/11…) eat up a lot of pages that could’ve been spent on extracts from better criticism.

I bought this book for a class on John Milton and it's been useful and easy to peruse. It doesn't transcribe Milton's writing exactly, though, some of the spelling and grammar has been modernized (for example, changing "heavn'ly" to "heavenly") but the text itself is unabridged. It doesn't include Paradise Lost, which is Milton's most popular work, so if that's what you need, look elsewhere. Overall I am satisfied with this product, no complaints.

I will not comment on or rate Milton's poetry, other than to say its of the highest quality. But this Norton Critical edition is very nice and worth getting if you want to read Milton's non-Paradise Lost work.