Paradise Lost

By (author) Milton, John; Edited by Dobranski Stephen B.
Description
Edited for the modern reader by Stephen B. Dobranski (author of The Cambridge Introduction to Milton), the Norton Library edition of Paradise Lost features the complete text of the second (1674) edition, the last published during Milton’s lifetime. Extensive endnotes clarify obscure terms and references, and a thorough introduction discusses the epic’s innovations and its historical and religious contexts, illuminating the author’s radically ambitious undertaking to “justify the ways of God to men.”
Biographical note
Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor of English at Georgia State University and the editor of the journal Milton Studies. He has published nine books including The Cambridge Introduction to Milton; Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England; and Milton’s Visual Imagination: Imagery in “Paradise Lost.” He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Shannon Dobranski, and their daughter, Audrey.