A glossary of names and suggestions for further reading.Topically arranged commentaries and interpretations-seventy-eight in all, thirty-nine of them new to the Second Edition-from classic assessments to current scholarship.Source and background materials, including Milton’s greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety and key selections from the Bible.An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey.Spelling and punctuation have been modernized for student readers. The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript.New critical selections in each of those areas, augmented annotations, and a quick-reference Glossary of Names make this an ideal edition for learning-and for luxuriating in-this monumental poem.” -RAYNA KALAS, Cornell University There’s a genuine reverence for the poetic wisdom of Paradise Lost conveyed in these pages, and an equal sense that this is a poem we should be wrangling with on matters of race, religion, politics, and gender. “Teskey’s revised edition is as open as it is authoritative.
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