'Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books' : Essays on the 1667 First Edition (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

Vol. 2: "Essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise lost (1667) from the now standard second edition (1674), examining in particular the original text's relationship to theliterary and theological world it entered in 1667 and thus offering interesting correctives to our understanding of Milton's thought"--Provided by publisher.