CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY
ON TIME
AT A SOLEMN MUSIC
L’ALLEGRO
IL PENSEROSO
ARCADES
COMUS
LYCIDAS
SONNETS
     I. To the Nightingale
     II. On His being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Four
     III. When the Assault was Intended to the City
     IV. To a Virtuous Young Lady
     V. To the Lady Margaret Ley
     VI. On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing certain Treatises
     VII. On the Same
     VIII. To Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs
     IX. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason, my Christian Friend, Deceased December, 1646
     X. On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
     XI. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester
     XII. To the Lord General Cromwell, on the Proposals of certain Ministers at the Committee for Propagation of the Gospel
     XIII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
     XIV. On the late Massacre in Piemont
     XV. On His Blindness
     XVI. To Edward Lawrence
     XVII. To Cyriack Skinner
     XVIII. To the Same
     XIX. On his deceased Wife
COMMENTARY
APPENDIX I. Renaissance Platonism and Cosmology
APPENDIX II. The Chronology of Milton’s Life