It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of all time. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books with minor revisions throughout. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. Lewalski’s edition respects Milton’s original poem and offers supremely clear introductions, bibliography and special material to guide the student reader and educated lay person alike to new discoveries in a work that, quite simply, has it all: good, evil, God, Satan, humans, angels, love, despair, war, politics, sex, duty, and sublime poetry-set in a cosmic landscape that inspires wonder and seduces new readers in every generation. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and well-judged." –Thomas N.
"For the student or general reader, looking for an old-spelling edition that is faithful to the original punctuation, this edition has much to recommend it. Here the word predestined is actually used to describe the. Milton believed that God predestined man to fall but that the fall was ultimately to the advantage of mankind. This epic poem by Milton takes a philosophical look while arguing about man’s relationship with God. "Teachers and scholars will welcome Barbara Lewalski’s Blackwell edition of Paradise Lost, one not only informed by the erudition of a prominent and highly respected Miltonist but advantaged by her sound decision to reproduce the original language, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics of the 1674 text." –Edward Jones, Editor, Milton Quarterly John Milton wrote the poem Paradise Lost in the seventeenth century. This is an edition that will please students and professors alike, and its sheer quality is a tribute to Barbara Lewalski's passion to provide readers with all the help they need to understand the greatest of all English poems." –Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. In this exemplary edition of Paradise Lost both qualities are in evidence: the text is scrupulous and the scholarship rigorous, but both the introduction and the notes are accommodated to the needs of students who will be coming to the poem for the first time. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (16081674). "Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching.
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