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This Literature Guide is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey’s freshly edited text of Milton’s masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton’s syntax. This guide also brings together interpretations by Stephen Greenblatt and C.S. Lewis, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, and Sandra M. Gilbert. A Glossary is also included.