Appearing in tandem with the first publication of an authoritative
text of the 1667 first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost,
these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant
differences in the text, context, and effect of the first edition
of Paradise Lost from those of the now-standard second edition of
1674. In bringing together essays by various hands, editors Lieb
and Shawcross seek to map what may be termed a new frontier in
Milton studies, that which acknowledges the importance of what
Milton himself considered to be the work of a lifetime when he
offered Paradise Lost to the world in 1667. While the scholars
writing here do not claim that the first edition of Milton's epic
is to be viewed as supplanting the second and later editions, they
do seek to demonstrate the importance of coming to terms with the
original 10-book edition both as an epic with its own identity and
value and as a work that provides fundamental insight into the
nature of the editions that would follow in its wake. As these
scholars demonstrate, Paradise Lost is a work that cannot be fully
understood without an awareness of the dynamic and ever-changing
nature of the forces through which it made its first and subsequent
appearances in the world at large.
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