"Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books": An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition

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CONTENTS Bibliographic Terms vii Preface ix Note on the Text xvi Paradise lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books Book I 3 Book II 31 Book III 68 Book IV 94 Book V 130 Book VI 162 Book VII 194 Book VIII 239 Book IX 281 Book X 320 Discussion of the Edited Text Changes and Lack of Changes Made 377 The First Edition of Paradise lost (With Comment on the Second Edition and the Manuscript) 385 Issues of the First Edition 392 Textual Variants 395 Textual Errors 415 Added Preliminary Material, 1668–69 419 Discussion of Added Preliminary Material 440 Further Changes in the Second Edition, 1674 450 Bibliography 453 ...