CONTENTS:

PART I. THE EARLY POEMS
1. Childhood and School
2. First Years at Cambridge
3. Middle Years at Cambridge
4. The Nativity Ode
5. Between the Nativity Ode and Comus
6. Comus
7. Later Horton period and Lycidas
8. Visit to Italy

PART II. THE PERIOD OF THE PROSE
1. Introductory
2. Pamphlets against Episcopacy: 1. General
3. Pamphlets against Episcopacy: 2. Separate Works
4. Milton’s Marriage: First Divorce Tract
5. Tract on Education and Areopagitica
6. Last Divorce Tracts: Tetrachordon and Colasterion
7. Interval in Pamphlet-Writing, 1645-1649
8. First Pamphlets against Monarchy
9. Defensio Secunda
10. Interval in Pamphlet-Writing, 1655-1659
11. Pamphlets preceding the Restoration

INTERCHAPTER: Milton’s Beliefs

PART III. THE LATER POEMS
1. Paradise Lost: Introductory
2. Paradise Lost: The Construction
3. Paradise Lost: The Conscious Meaning
4. Paradise Lost: The Unconscious Meaning
5. Paradise Lost: Possible Inconsistency
6. Paradise Lost: Summary of the Meaning
7. Paradise Regained: Its Relation to Paradise Lost
8. Paradise Regained: Its Subject and Characters
9. Paradise Regained: Its Literary Character
10. Paradise Regained: The Construction
11. Samson Agonistes: Its Origin
12. Samson Agonistes: Its Quality
13. Samson Agonistes: The Dramatic Motive
14. Samson Agonistes: Its Relation to Milton’s Experience and Thought

EPILOGUE: Miton Today