Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It i

Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powe

Includes reproductions of title pages of first editions, typographical ornaments, dedications to Increase Mather.