Which version of Paradise Lost is best?
I am partial to the Riverside Study Editions of the classics. I don’t know if there is one for Paradise Lost, but since there seems to be one for just about every other book I had to read in college, my guess is that you will find one somewhere. I like the Riverside ones because they offer good notes, both on the language and the text, and you rarely have to go to a separate reference book to look something up if you feel like being lazy (which I usually do). I also like Norton Editions, for pretty much the same reasons. The editors and the people who write the study guides and notes are experts in their fields and provide a good supplement to the actual text. However, with the above having been said, I would first advise you to see if it is available in the Barnes and Noble Classics edition. Recently, those have become my favorite versions of classics. They aren’t terribly expensive, the hardbacks and trade paperbacks are well bound, and they provide a good amount of information in th
