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| Biographical Sketch | iii | |
| Preface | xxi | |
| Paradise Lost | ||
| Introduction | ||
| I. | Earliest Editions of the Poem | 1 |
| II. | Origin of the Poem and History of its Composition | 9 |
| III. | Scheme and Meaning of the Poem | 18 |
| Author's Preface on "The Verse" | 35 | |
| Commendatory Verses, prefixed to the Second Edition | 37 | |
| Text of the Poem | ||
| Book I.43 | ||
| Book II.61 | ||
| Book III.84 | ||
| Book IV.101 | ||
| Book V.124 | ||
| Book VI.144 | ||
| Book VII.164 | ||
| Book VIII.179 | ||
| Book IX.194 | ||
| Book X.220 | ||
| Book XI.245 | ||
| Book XII.265 | ||
| Paradise Regained | ||
| Introduction | 281 | |
| Text of the Poem | ||
| Book I.291 | ||
| Book II.303 | ||
| Book III.314 | ||
| Book IV.324 | ||
| Samson Agonistes | ||
| Introduction | 339 | |
| The Author's Preface: "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called Tragedy" | 349 | |
| The Argument and the Persons | 351 | |
| Text of the Poem | 353 | |
| Minor Poems | ||
| General Introduction | 393 | |
| Introductions to the Poems Severally | ||
| Part I. | Introductions to the English Poems | 397 |
| Part II. | Introductions to the Latin Poems | 445 |
| Moseley's Preface to the Edition of 1645 | 470 | |
| Text of the Poems | ||
| Part I. | The English Poems | |
| Paraphrases on Psalms CXIV. and CXXXVI. | 471 | |
| On the Death of a Fair Infant dying of a Cough | 474 | |
| At a Vacation Exercise in the College | 476 | |
| On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | 479 | |
| Upon the Circumcision | 486 | |
| The Passion | 487 | |
| On Time | 489 | |
| At a Solemn Music | 490 | |
| Song on May Morning | 490 | |
| On Shakespeare | 491 | |
| On the University Carrier | 491 | |
| Another on the Same | 492 | |
| An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester | 492 | |
| L'Allegro | 494 | |
| Il Penseroso | 497 | |
| Arcades | 502 | |
| Comus; a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 | 505 | |
| Lawes's Dedication of the Edition of 1637 | 505 | |
| Sir Henry Wotton's Commendatory Letter of 1638 | 505 | |
| The Persons | 507 | |
| Text of the Masque | 508 | |
| Lycidas | 532 | |
| Sonnets and Kindred Pieces | ||
| Sonnet I. | To the Nightingale | 537 |
| Sonnet II. | On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three | 537 |
| Sonnet III. | Donna leggiadra, &c. | 538 |
| Sonnet IV. | Qual in colle aspro, &c. | 538 |
| Canzone | 538 | |
| Sonnet V. | Diodati (e te 'l diro, &c.) | 539 |
| Sonnet VI. | Per certo, &c. | 539 |
| Sonnet VII. | Giovane, piano, &c. | 539 |
| Sonnet VIII. | When the Assault was intended to the City | 540 |
| Sonnet IX. | To a Lady | 540 |
| Sonnet X. | To the Lady Margaret Ley | 541 |
| Sonnet XI. | On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises | 541 |
| Sonnet XII. | On the Same | 541 |
| On the New Forcers of Conscience | 542 | |
| Sonnet XIII. | To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs | 542 |
| Sonnet XIV. | On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson | 543 |
| Sonnet XV. | On the Lord General Fairfax | 543 |
| Sonnet XVI. | To the Lord General Cromwell | 544 |
| Sonnet XVII. | To Sir Henry Vane the Younger | 544 |
| Sonnet XVIII. | On the late Massacre in Piedmont | 544 |
| Sonnet XIX. | On His Blindness | 545 |
| Sonnet XX. | To Mr. Lawrence | 545 |
| Sonnet XXI. | To Cyriack Skinner | 546 |
| Sonnet XXII. | To the Same | 546 |
| Sonnet XXIII. | To the Memory of his Second Wife | 546 |
| Translations | ||
| The Fifth Ode of Horace, L:b.I. | 548 | |
| Nine of the Psalms done into Metre, 1648 | ||
| Psalm LXXX.549 | ||
| Psalm LXXXI.551 | ||
| Psalm LXXXII.552 | ||
| Psalm LXXXIII.553 | ||
| Psalm LXXXIV.555 | ||
| Psalm LXXXV.556 | ||
| Psalm LXXXVI.557 | ||
| Psalm LXXXVII.558 | ||
| Psalm LXXXVIII.559 | ||
| Eight of the Psalms done into Verse, 1653 | ||
| Psalm I.561 | ||
| Psalm II.561 | ||
| Psalm III.562 | ||
| Psalm IV.563 | ||
| Psalm V.564 | ||
| Psalm VI.565 | ||
| Psalm VII.565 | ||
| Psalm VIII.567 | ||
| Scraps from the Prose Writings | 568 | |
| Part II. | The Latin Poems | |
| De Auctore Testimonia | 571 | |
| Elegiarum Liber | ||
| Elegia I. | Ad Carolum Diodatum | 575 |
| Elegia II. | In obitum Praeconis Academici Cantabrigiensis | 577 |
| Elegia III. | In obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis | 577 |
| Elegia IV. | Ad Thomam Junium, Praeceptorem suum | 579 |
| Elegia V. | In Adventum Veris | 582 |
| Elegia VI. | Ad Carolum Diodatum, ruri commorantem | 585 |
| Elegia VII. | Anno aetatis undevigesimo | 587 |
| In Proditionem Bombardicam | 590 | |
| In Eandem | 590 | |
| In Eandem | 590 | |
| In Eandem | 591 | |
| In Inventorum Bombardae | 591 | |
| Ad Leonoram Romae Canentem | 591 | |
| Ad Eandem | 591 | |
| Ad Eandem | 592 | |
| Apologus de Rustico et Hero | 592 | |
| De Moro | 592 | |
| Ad Christinam, Suecorum Reginam, nomine Cromwelli | 592 | |
| Sylvarum Liber | ||
| In obitum Procancellarii Medici | 593 | |
| In Quintum Novembris | 594 | |
| In obitum Praesulis Eliensis | 599 | |
| Naturam non pati Senium | 600 | |
| De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit | 602 | |
| Ad Patrem | 603 | |
| Greek Verses | ||
| Psalm CXIV | 606 | |
| Philosophus ad Regem quendam | 606 | |
| In Effigiei ejus Sculptorem | 606 | |
| Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, aegrotantem | 607 | |
| Mansus | 608 | |
| Epitaphium Damonis | 610 | |
| Ad Joannem Rousium, Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium | 615 | |
| In Salmasii Hundredam | 618 | |
| In Salmasium | 618 |
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