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**This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make __Paradise Lost__ accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic.** Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton’s syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton’s prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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- Author
- John Milton, Gordon Teskey (editor)
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393924282
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (1,772 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Paradise Lost (Hackett Classics) (2005)
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) (2003)
- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series) (2001)
- Paradise Lost (1998)
- Paradise Lost (2005)
- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series) (1667)
- Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics) (2011)
- Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics) (2007)
- Paradise Lost - A Poem in Twelve Books (2003)
- Paradise Lost: a Poem in Twelve Books (1962)
- Paradise Lost: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism (2003)
- Paradise Lost: an Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism (2005)
- Paradise Lost (2008)
- Paradise Lost (2007)
- Paradise Lost : an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (1975)
- Paradise Lost : an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (1993)
- Paradise Lost (cyber Classics) (1998)
- Paradise Lost : a Poem in Twelve Books (2010)
- Paradise lost (2009)
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