Ebook: Milton

Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture. First published in 1968, with John Carey's Complete Shorter Poems, Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative edition.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Note by the General Editors; Preface to the Second Edition; From the Preface to the First Edition; Abbreviations; Selected Journal Abbreviations; Chronological Table of Milton's Life andChief Publications; Introduction; Composition; Printing history; Text; Punctuation; Sources and models; Language and style; Metrical structure; Numerical composition; Time-scheme; Astronomy; Theology; Politics and allegory; Criticism; Portraits and illustrations; Paradise Lost; The Printer to the Reader; In Paradisum Amissam; On Paradise Lost; The Verse.