[Milton-L] Paradise Lost -- Parallel Prose Edition

[Carl Bellinger]

Dear Dennis Danielson,

What a fascinating project!

 I've been looking at 17th and 18th century opinions that PL may be rather 
closer to prose than to verse, and would love hear your comments on the 
matter having "prosed" the whole work.

-Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Danielson" <danielso at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:21 PM
Subject: [Milton-L] Paradise Lost -- Parallel Prose Edition


> Dear Fellow Miltonists,
>
> Picking up on Neil Forsyth's language a few weeks back about "reaching
> out" and "attract[ing] people beyond the world of Miltonists," I'd like
> to announce publication this month of my "parallel prose" edition of
> Paradise Lost. It is intended mainly for readers who might never
> otherwise tackle Milton -- those who read modern English translations of
> Homer or Virgil or Dante, but are held back by the structure, syntax,
> and vocabulary of Paradise Lost. My edition offers the original text of
> PL on the left-hand page and a prose rendition ("translation," if you
> will) of the story on the recto.