The new Oxford University Press edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost, which David Loewenstein has edited with Thomas Corns, has now been published in two volumes.

It juxtaposes, for the first time, Milton’s two lifetime editions of the poem (1667 and 1674), thereby allowing readers to make close comparisons between them. The edition also reassesses the poem in relation to Milton’s political, religious, and theological radicalism and in relation to the culture of dissent in Milton’s England. It provides a new assessment of the poem’s generic originality as a domestic epic and a fresh consideration of the poem in relation to early modern science. It likewise provides a new account of the poem’s early publishing history as the blind Milton worked with his publisher and booksellers in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London.