Paradise Lost

Paradise LostParadise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poem the last of Milton's lifetime with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation. Marginal glosses define unfamiliar words,

the work of Sir John Vanbrugh

and is free-flowering from spring through fall

with brass casters

During her nine-month stay

perennial subshrub

Once published in black-and-white facsimile by the Government Printing Office in 1900 as a gift for new members of Congress

long blooming period in late spring

pale blue flowers appear just above gracefully bending pale green leaves

bright green foliage

Publication date:  May 22

the marriage of his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph is a continuing source of great happiness

space trees 15-20' apart