Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 752 pages : This is a guide to Milton's major work, "Paradise Lost" providing notes which refer to extra-literary contexts, and aiming in particular to explain Milton's imaginary astronomy more fully than previous editions Composition; printing history; text; punctuation; sources and models; language and style; metrical structure; numerical composition; time scheme; astronomy; theology; politics and allegory; criticism; portraits and illustrations; the printer to the reader; "In Paradisum Amissam"; on "Paradise Lost"; the verse; Dryden's epigram; "Paradise Lost"