Anyone here have this edition?Is it sewn or glued? Are the notes any good? I'm trying to get back into english language literature after spending a lot of time focused on my TLs and I figure Milton and Shakespeare are a great way to startSince Iambic Pentameter will be most of what I read I want to learn to recite it well and so I'm wondering how I should go about approaching thisAre there any recordings that you recommend? Should I strive to really exaggerate the stressed syllable as a beginner? I'd like to really get a intuitive feeling for it and be able to identify where the author switches things up
I want to know too
>>24776102I don't have this edition, but given it's modern library I would say 90% the hardback is glued unfortunately. I don't know of that many newer publishers that put out smyth sewn hardbacks except for Library of America and Everyman's Library. If that's what you're looking for, I can recommend the Everyman's Library edition of Milton's complete poems, which also includes Areopagitica and Of Education.
>>24776360forgot to say if you want to take a gander at the notes and introduction and judge for yourself there should be epubs/pdfs of this edition on anna's archive
>>24776102Ive got it. Lemme get back home in a few minutes and I’ll check it out. Damn this captcha
>>24776102>>24776382I remembered after I replied that I have the older edition with a different cover painting ("The Infernal Serpent" by Terrance Lindall)
>>24776399Looks glued to me.
>>24776406I'll post a couple of random pages so you can make up your mind about the quality of the footnotes
>>24776419Honetly, I made it through my undergrad with the Nortons and a couple of very good professors who were very anal/autistic about the pronunciation and speech/breath of Milton's meter, as well as his logic and use of Latinate form to structure his verses (I think we spent nearly an entire week on the conference in Heaven between the tri-partite Trinity and how they both were and were not part of the same entity).
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>>24776102Its glued and not even a good glueing job (uneven). Those things also fall apart hard from getting wet, more earily than other. The hardest books I ever destroyes or torn up were Loebs and Taschens. ModLib falls apart and rips as easily as Penguin paperback and all you got left is a cardboard block on it.
>>24776862Oh, its eve lib actually, I just copied the other poster that said it was mod lib. They Eve lib books are the ones with the cardboard on em no?. Mod libs actually outlasted eve libs on my destroying test because they have sown cloth on em bit the ones pic related are held on with rippable paper that U can destroy in accidents
I always get them confused. The point is they are both cheap–o Penguin shit and they mainly exisst to cut corners and make books that are like Fast Food. You will get a bad product and it would fail my destroying test.
>>24776872I used to borrow Modern Library books from my uni library and they were all sewn and high quality
