Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.