Paradise Lost

This Norton Critical Edition includes:- The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for student readers.- An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey.- Source and background materials, including Milton's greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety and key selections from the Bible.- Topically arranged commentaries and interpretations-seventy-eight in all, thirty-nine of them new to the Second Edition-from classic assessments to current scholarship.- A glossary of names and suggestions for further reading.