Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are ''world[s] / Of destined habitation''. Milton''s bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows th...