Paradise LostISBN: 978-1-4051-2928-2
Hardcover
392 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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"[The book] prints its notes on the same page as the text - and thus makes them easily accessible. Its readable typeface makes it the best of the old-spelling editions currently available. It scrupulously adheres to the originally published forms of the language wherever possible." (Times Literary Supplement, December 2008)
"Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching. 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. 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
"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
"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. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and
well-judged."
–Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor
"A superb teaching text. 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."
–Sharon Achinstein, Oxford University