The Text of Paradise Lost : : A Study in Editorial Procedure / / R.G. Moyles.
Paradise Lost, possibly the 'most read, most criticized, and most exalted' poem in the English language, has been published more often perhaps in the three hundred years of its existence than any other work of English literature. In the eighteenth century alone, when the English nation wen...
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