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@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Hoefler Text}
\fi
+\def\UrlFont{\ttfamily \small}
+
\usepackage[mergecollisions]{versonotes}
% Adjust the layout of the notes to make them more compact.
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@
\def\N#1#2{#1\versonote{\emph{#1}: #2}}
\parindent=0pt
-\parskip\medskipamount
+\parskip\bigskipamount
\begin{document}
\textbf{\Large Paradise Lost}
@@ -24,28 +26,23 @@
\emph{John Milton}
This excerpt comprises the first couple of stanzas of \emph{Paradise
- Lost}, with notes. The text derives from
+ Lost}, with notes. The text and notes are quoted here (with
+permission) to illustrate one use of the versonotes package
+(\url{http://www.ctan.org/pkg/versonotes}), and its response to
+collisions of notes. Also, because a day with \emph{Paradise Lost} in
+it is a day improved.
+
+The text is from
\url{https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/}.
-The general editor of this edition is Thomas H. Luxon, and the text is
+The general editor of this edition is Thomas H. Luxon, and the notes are
Copyright Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1997-2014; see the colophon
at \url{https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/about_mrr.shtml}.
-The notes are quoted here (without explicit permission, but I hope permissibly)
-to illustrate one use of the versonotes package (\url{http://www.ctan.org/pkg/versonotes}),
-and its response to collisions of notes.
-%% I hope that this excerpt is sufficiently small
-%% that it counts as ‘fair use’, and not as a ‘derived work’ in the terms
-%% of the original's Attribution-NoDerivs Creative Commons licence.
-Also, because a day with \emph{Paradise Lost} in
-it is a day improved.
-
\pagebreak
\textbf{\Large Book 1}
-%\medskip
\emph{The Argument}
-%\medskip
\emph{\emph{This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole
Subject}, Mans
@@ -82,7 +79,6 @@ Associates thence attempt. \N{\emph{Pandemonium}}{Literally, ``all the
Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there
sit in Councel.}
-\bigskip
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit\\
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast\\
@@ -98,17 +94,17 @@ See also the Perseus Project edition of this passage.},\\
With loss of \emph{Eden}, till \N{one greater Man}{The messiah.}\\
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, \\
Sing \N{Heav'nly Muse}{Is the ``Heavenly Muse'' invoked here the same as the ``Urania,'' traditionally the muse of astronomy, invoked at book 7.1? More likely, contemporary readers would have first thought of the ``Holy Spirit,'' as the inspiration of Moses.}, that on the secret top\\
-Of \N{\emph{Oreb}}{Moses, ``That Shepherd,'' received the Law on Mt. Horeb (Deuteronomy 4: 10) or its spur, Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19: 20).}, or of \emph{Sinai}, didst inspire\\
+Of \N{\emph{Oreb}}{Moses, ``That Shepherd,'' received the Law on Mt.\ Horeb (Deuteronomy 4: 10) or its spur, Mt.\ Sinai (Exodus 19: 20).}, or of \emph{Sinai}, didst inspire\\
That Shepherd, who first taught the \N{chosen Seed}{The people of Israel. See Exodus 19-20.},\\
\N{In the Beginning}{The opening words of both Genesis (Geneva) and the Gospel of John (Geneva).} how the Heav'ns and Earth\\
-Rose \N{out of Chaos}{One of Milton's several heterodox positions. Orthodoxy held that God created everything ex nihilo, out of nothing (the ``void'' of Genesis 1:2; See Calvin's Commentary on Genesis). Milton borrows the concept of chaos, or unformed matter, from Hesiod and Platonic philosophy (especially the Timaeus 53b). Milton was also a monist, holding that all things were created out of God; see book 5.468-490.}: Or if \N{\emph{Sion}}{To the haunts of the classical muses near the Castalian spring on Mt. Parnassus, Milton prefers to claim Mt. Sion and its brooks Kidron and Siloa, a kind of biblically authorized Parnassus.} Hill \\
+Rose \N{out of Chaos}{One of Milton's several heterodox positions. Orthodoxy held that God created everything ex nihilo, out of nothing (the ``void'' of Genesis 1:2; See Calvin's Commentary on Genesis). Milton borrows the concept of chaos, or unformed matter, from Hesiod and Platonic philosophy (especially the Timaeus 53b). Milton was also a monist, holding that all things were created out of God; see book 5.468–490.}: Or if \N{\emph{Sion}}{To the haunts of the classical muses near the Castalian spring on Mt.\ Parnassus, Milton prefers to claim Mt.\ Sion and its brooks Kidron and Siloa, a kind of biblically authorized Parnassus.} Hill \\
Delight thee more, and \N{\emph{Siloa's Brook}}{``The Pool of Siloam (Hebrew:
-% בריכת השילוח‎,
+% בריכת השילוח‎,
Breikhat Hashiloah) is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. The pool was fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts'' (Wikipedia, ``Pool of Siloam.'')} that flow'd\\
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence\\
Invoke thy aid to my \N{adventrous Song}{Note the similarities between Milton's opening and the opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid and of Homer's Odyssey. Milton wants not only to compare his project to the ancient epics, but also himself to those poets and his main character, Adam, to their celebrated heroes. All of these comparisons raise interesting and complicated questions of authority, heroism, and nationalism in art.},\\
That with no middle flight intends to soar\\
-Above th' \N{Aonian Mount}{Mt. Helicon, in Aonia, sacred to the classical muses.}, while it pursues \\
+Above th' \N{Aonian Mount}{Mt.\ Helicon, in Aonia, sacred to the classical muses.}, while it pursues \\
Things unattempted yet \N{in Prose or Rhime}{The line ironically (maybe even sarcastically?) recalls the stanza 2 of canto 1 of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.}.\\
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer\\
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,\\
@@ -119,8 +115,8 @@ And mad'st it \N{pregnant}{Milton invites us to imagine the Holy Spirit copulati
Illumin, what is low raise and support;\\
That to the highth of this great Argument\\
I may assert Eternal Providence, \\
-And justifie the wayes of God to men.\\
-\bigskip
+And justifie the wayes of God to men.
+
\N{Say first}{Compare this with Homer's invocation to the muse in the Iliad 1.8.}, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view\\
Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause\\
Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State,\\