| A Chronology of the Main Events in Milton's Life | |
| Abbreviations of Titles of Milton's Works | |
| Abbreviations of Titles of Literary and Critical Works Cited in the Notes | |
| Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals Cited in the Notes | |
| A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV | p. 3 |
| Psalm CXXXVI | p. 4 |
| Verses found with the Commonplace Book: Carmina Elegiaca (Elegiac Verses) | p. 6 |
| Verses found with the Commonplace Book: Ignavus satrapam dedecet (Slothful sleep disgraces a ruler) | p. 6 |
| Apologus de Rustico et Hero (Fable of Peasant and Landlord) | p. 6 |
| Elegia Prima (Elegy I) | p. 7 |
| The Fifth Ode of Horace | p. 10 |
| In Obitum Procancellarii Medici (On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician) | p. 11 |
| Elegia Secunda (Elegy II) | p. 12 |
| In Proditionem Bombardicam (On the Gunpowder Plot) | p. 13 |
| In Eandem (On the Same) | p. 13 |
| In Eandem (On the Same) | p. 14 |
| In Eandem (On the Same) | p. 14 |
| In Inventorem Bombardae (On the Inventor of Gunpowder) | p. 14 |
| In Quintum Novembris (On the Fifth of November) | p. 15 |
| Elegia Tertia (Elegy III) | p. 21 |
| In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis (On the Death of the Bishop of Ely) | p. 24 |
| Elegia Quarta (Elegy IV) | p. 25 |
| At a Vacation Exercise in the College | p. 30 |
| Naturam Non Pati Senium (That Nature is Not Subject to Old Age) | p. 32 |
| On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough | p. 35 |
| Elegia Quinta (Elegy V) | p. 37 |
| Song: On May Morning | p. 41 |
| On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | p. 42 |
| Elegia Sexta (Elegy VI) | p. 50 |
| Sonnet I: O Nightingale! | p. 53 |
| Sonnet II: Donna leggiadra! (Beautiful Lady) | p. 53 |
| Sonnet III: Qual in colle aspro (As on a Rugged Mountain) | p. 54 |
| Canzone | p. 54 |
| Sonnet IV: Diodati, e te'l diro (Diodati, and I will Say It to You) | p. 55 |
| Sonnet V: Per certo i bei vostr' occhi (In Truth, Your Fair Eyes) | p. 55 |
| Sonnet VI: Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante (Young, Gentle, and Candid Lover) | p. 56 |
| De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles Intellexit (On the Platonic Idea as Understood by Aristotle) | p. 56 |
| Elegia Septima (Elegy VII) | p. 58 |
| The Passion | p. 61 |
| On Shakespeare | p. 63 |
| On the University Carrier | p. 64 |
| Another on the Same | p. 64 |
| Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester | p. 65 |
| L'Allegro | p. 68 |
| Il Penseroso | p. 72 |
| Sonnet VII: How Soon Hath Time | p. 76 |
| Arcades | p. 77 |
| On Time | p. 80 |
| Upon the Circumcision | p. 80 |
| At a Solemn Music | p. 81 |
| Ad Patrem (To His Father) | p. 82 |
| A Mask (Comus) | p. 86 |
| Psalm CXIV | p. 114 |
| Philosophus ad Regem Quendam (A Philosopher to a Certain King) | p. 115 |
| Lycidas | p. 116 |
| Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, Aegrotantem (To Salzilli, a Roman Poet, When He Was Ill) | p. 125 |
| Mansus (Manso) | p. 127 |
| Ad Leonoram Romae Canentem (To Leonora Singing in Rome) | p. 130 |
| Ad Eandem (To the Same) | p. 131 |
| Ad Eandem (To the Same) | p. 131 |
| Epitaphium Damonis (Damon's Epitaph) | p. 132 |
| Translations from Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England | p. 139 |
| Translations from An Apology for Smectymnuus | p. 140 |
| Sonnet VIII: When the Assault Was Intended to the City | p. 140 |
| Sonnet IX: Lady That in the Prime | p. 141 |
| Translation from Tetrachordon | p. 141 |
| Sonnet X: To the Lady Margaret Ley | p. 141 |
| In Effigiei Eius Sculptorem (On the Engraver of His Likeness) | p. 142 |
| Verses from The History of Britain | p. 142 |
| Sonnet XI: On the Detraction Which Followed upon My Writing Certain Treatises | p. 143 |
| Sonnet XII: On the Same | p. 143 |
| Sonnet XIII: To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs | p. 144 |
| On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament | p. 144 |
| Sonnet XIV: On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason, My Christian Friend, Deceased, 16 December, 1646 | p. 145 |
| Ad Ioannem Rousium (To John Rouse), Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium (Librarian of Oxford Unversity) | p. 146 |
| Psalm LXXX | p. 149 |
| Psalm LXXXI | p. 151 |
| Psalm LXXXII | p. 152 |
| Psalm LXXXIII | p. 153 |
| Psalm LXXXIV | p. 154 |
| Psalm LXXXV | p. 155 |
| Psalm LXXXVI | p. 156 |
| Psalm LXXXVII | p. 157 |
| Psalm LXXXVIII | p. 158 |
| Sonnet XV: On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester | p. 159 |
| Latin Verses from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio: In Salmasii Hundredam (Against the Hundred of Salmasius) | p. 160 |
| Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell | p. 160 |
| Sonnet XVII: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger | p. 161 |
| Psalm I | p. 162 |
| Psalm II | p. 162 |
| Psalm III | p. 163 |
| Psalm IV | p. 163 |
| Psalm V | p. 164 |
| Psalm VI | p. 165 |
| Psalm VII | p. 165 |
| Psalm VIII | p. 167 |
| Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont | p. 167 |
| Sonnet XIX: When I Consider | p. 168 |
| Sonnet XX: Lawrence of Virtuous Father | p. 168 |
| Sonnet XXI: Cyriack, Whose Grandsire | p. 169 |
| Sonnet XXII: To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness | p. 170 |
| Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw | p. 170 |
| Paradise Lost: Introduction | p. 173 |
| Book I | p. 211 |
| Book II | p. 232 |
| Book III | p. 257 |
| Book IV | p. 277 |
| Book V | p. 302 |
| Book VI | p. 323 |
| Book VII | p. 345 |
| Book VIII | p. 362 |
| Book IX | p. 378 |
| Book X | p. 406 |
| Book XI | p. 432 |
| Book XII | p. 454 |
| Paradise Regained: Introduction | p. 471 |
| The First Book | p. 483 |
| The Second Book | p. 494 |
| The Third Book | p. 505 |
| The Fourth Book | p. 515 |
| Samson Agonistes: Introduction | p. 531 |
| Samson Agonistes | p. 549 |
| Some Early Oratorical Performances (Prolusions) | p. 595 |
| Of Education | p. 630 |
| The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty | p. 640 |
| An Apology For Smectymnuus (Selections) | p. 690 |
| The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Selections) | p. 696 |
| Areopagitica | p. 716 |
| The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates | p. 750 |
| Eikonoklastes (Selections) | p. 781 |
| The Second Defense of the People of England (Selections) | p. 817 |
| A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes | p. 839 |
| Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church | p. 856 |
| The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth | p. 880 |
| The Christian Doctrine (Selections) | p. 900 |
| Collections for the Life of Milton | p. 1021 |
| The Life of Milton | p. 1025 |
| An Anonymous Life of Milton | p. 1038 |
| Index of Names | p. 1045 |
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