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.
