Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Milton’s Book of Numbers: Book 1 and Its Catalog 15
6. 2. Ulysses and the Devils: The Unity of Book 2 38
7. 3. Fear of Falling: Icarus, Phaethon, and Lucretius 63
8. 4. Light, Vision, and the Unity of Book 3 93
9. 5. The Politics of Envy 122
10. 6. Getting What You Wish For: A Reading of the Fall 153
11. 7. Reversing the Fall in Book 10 197
12. 8. Leaving Eden 234
13. Notes 249
14. Bibliography 285
15. Index 301