InhaltsangabeNote on This Edition. Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. Chronology. Introduction. Textual Introduction. PARADISE LOST. In Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ (S[amuel] B[arrow] M. D.). On Paradise Lost (A[ndrew] M[arvell]). The Verse. Book 1. Book 2. Book 3. Book 4. Book 5. Book 6. Book 7. Book 8. Book 9. Book 10. Book 11. Book 12. Textual Notes. Appendix: Sketches for Dramas on the Fall, from the Trinity Manuscript. Select Bibliography

Barbara K. Lewalski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University. She is author of the definitive critical biography, The Life of Milton (Blackwell, 2000), which won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Book Award, and which has been widely celebrated. Her many other publications include Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985); Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained (1966); and Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979).

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