约翰·弥尔顿与失乐园【中英】简介(9)

with a further £5 to be paid if and when each print run sold out of between 1,300 and 1,500 copies.[54] The first run was a quarto edition priced at three shillings per copy (about £23 in 2015 purchasing power equivalent), 
published in August 1667, and it sold out in eighteen months.

Milton followed up the publication Paradise Lost with its sequel Paradise Regained, which was published alongside the tragedy Samson Agonistes in 1671.
Both of these works also reflect Milton's post-Restoration political situation. Just before his death in 1674, Milton supervised a second edition of Paradise Lost, accompanied by an explanation of "why the poem rhymes not",