Edited for the modern reader by Stephen B. Dobranski (author of The
Cambridge Introduction to Milton), the Norton Library edition of
Paradise Lost features the complete text of the second (1674) edition,
the last published during Milton's lifetime. Extensive endnotes clarify
obscure terms and references, and a thorough introduction discusses the
epic's innovations and its historical and religious contexts,
illuminating the author's radically ambitious undertaking to "justify
the ways of God to men."