Barbara K. Lewalski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University. She is author of the definitive critical biography, The Life of Milton (Blackwell, 2000), which won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Book Award, and which has been widely celebrated. Her many other publications include Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985); Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained (1966); and Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979).

• Note on This Edition. Acknowledgments.List of Illustrations.Chronology.Introduction.Textual Introduction.PARADISE LOST.In Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ (Samuel Barrow M. D.).On Paradise Lost (Andrew Marvell).The Verse.Book 1.Book 2.Book 3.Book 4.Book 5.Book 6.Book 7.Book 8.Book 9.Book 10.Book 11.Book 12.Textual Notes.Appendix: Sketches for Dramas on the Fall, from the Trinity Manuscript.Select Bibliography

“A welcome complement to the large and growing collection of fine modernized texts of Milton’s poetry and prose currently in print.” (Studies in English Literature, Winter 2008) "[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)