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“Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”

An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition

Edited by John T. Shawcross and Michael Lieb

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472 pages
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2007
Originally published by Duquesne University Press

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

“Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books”

An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition

Edited by John T. Shawcross and Michael Lieb

This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of these issues.

 

This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of these issues.

John T. Shawcross (1924–2011) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky. He was the author of numerous books, including With Mortal Voice: The Creation of Paradise Lost, and a two-time winner of the James Holly Hanford Book Award for the most distinguished book on Milton.

Michael Lieb (1940–2022) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon and The Miltonic Samson, the latter of which won the 1996 Irene Samuel Memorial Award of the Milton Society of America.

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Preface

Note on the Text

Paradise lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books

Book I

Book I

Book III

Book IV

Book V

Book VI

Book VII

Book VIII

Book IX

Book X

Discussion of the Edited Text

Changes and Lack of Changes Made

The First Edition of Paradise lost (With Comment on the Second Edition and the Manuscript)

Issues of the First Edition

Textual Variants

Textual Errors

Added Preliminary Material, 1668–69

Discussion of Added Preliminary Material

Further Changes in the Second Edition, 1674

Bibliography

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Literary Studies

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