
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume I
Paradise Lost
Oxford University Press
Will be published approx. on 23. June 2026
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-19-923755-5 (ISBN)
Only available as a set (single article not available)
Description
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Milton's poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly editions it does not attempt to synthesise the two lifetime versions into a text that never existed. Nor does it privilege the later version over the earlier. It presents, too, a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political and religious controversies of its age, and it connects it more closely than hitherto with Milton's major theological treatise, De Doctrina Christiana. It also offers a more detailed account of its publishing history and the unusual organisation within the booktrade contrived to distribute Milton's finest achievement in an England devastated by the Great Fire of London.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-923755-5 (9780199237555)
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Persons
Thomas N. Corns was educated at Brasenose and University Colleges, Oxford, and the Maximilianeum Foundation, Munich. His whole academic career was spent at Bangor University, where he now has emeritus professorial status. He is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America and a Fellow of the British Academy.
David Loewenstein was educated at Oberlin College and the University of Virginia. His academic career was primarily spent at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he was Helen C. White Professor of English and the Humanities) and Penn State-University University Park (where he is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a NEH Fellow at the Newberry Library and Folger Shakespeare Library; and he has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge and at Lady Margaret Hall and Merton College, Oxford. He is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
David Loewenstein was educated at Oberlin College and the University of Virginia. His academic career was primarily spent at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where he was Helen C. White Professor of English and the Humanities) and Penn State-University University Park (where he is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a NEH Fellow at the Newberry Library and Folger Shakespeare Library; and he has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge and at Lady Margaret Hall and Merton College, Oxford. He is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
Volume editor
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the HumanitiesEdwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University
Emeritus Professor of English LiteratureEmeritus Professor of English Literature, Bangor University
Content
- Volume 1
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Editorial Procedures
- General Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- Paradise Lost 1667-1669 and 1674
- Volume 2
- General Commentary
- Textual Commentary
- Appendices
- Index to the Introductions and Commentaries
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations and short titles
- Abbreviations: Other Texts
- Editorial Procedures
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Editorial Procedures
- General Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- Paradise Lost 1667-1669 and 1674
- Volume 2
- General Commentary
- Textual Commentary
- Appendices
- Index to the Introductions and Commentaries
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations and short titles
- Abbreviations: Other Texts
- Editorial Procedures