| PAGES |
| Introduction | [xiii-xxxii] |
| Milton's Autobiography | [1-103] |
| | From A Defence of the English People | [2-6] |
| | From Second Defence of the People of England | [6-27] |
| | To Charles Diodati (Elegia Prima) | [28-30] |
| | To Alexander Gill, Jr. (Familiar Letters, No. III.) | [30, 31] |
| | To Thomas Young (Familiar Letters, No. IV.) | [31] |
| | To Charles Diodati (Elegia Sexta) | [31-33] |
| | Prolusiones quædam Oratoriæ | [33-35] |
| | To Father (Ad Patrem) | [35-40] |
| | English letter to a friend (unknown) who, it appears, had been calling him to account for his apparent indifference as to his work in life | [40-43] |
| | Sonnet: On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three | [42, 43] |
| | To Alexander Gill, Jr. (Familiar Letters, No. V.) | [43-44] |
| | To Charles Diodati (Familiar Letters, Nos. VI., VII.) | [44-46] |
| | To Benedetto Bonmattei of Florence (Familiar Letters, No. VIII.) | [46] |
| | From Mansus, Latin poem addressed to Manso, Marquis of Villa | [47] |
| | From Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing | [48, 49] |
| | To Lucas Holstenius in the Vatican at Rome (Familiar Letters, No. IX.) | [49, 50] |
| | Epitaphium Damonis | [50, 51] |
| | From Of Reformation in England | [52-54] |
| | From Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence, etc. | [54-56] |
| | From The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty | [56-65] |
| | From Apology for Smectymnuus | [65-82] |
| | To Carlo Dati, Nobleman of Florence (Familiar Letters, No. X.) | [82-84] |
| | Sonnet: On his Blindness | [84, 85] |
| | To the most distinguished Leonard Philaras, of Athens, Ambassador from the Duke of Parma to the King of France (Familiar Letters, No. XII.) | [85, 86] |
| | To Henry Oldenburg, agent for the city of Bremen in Lower Saxony with the Commonwealth (Familiar Letters, No. XIV.) | [87, 88] |
| | To Leonard Philaras, Athenian (Familiar Letters, No. XV.) | [88-90] |
| | Sonnet: To Cyriac Skinner | [91] |
| | Sonnet: On his deceased wife | [91] |
| | To the most accomplished Emeric Bigot (Familiar Letters, No. XXI.) | [92] |
| | To Henry Oldenburg (Familiar Letters, No. XXIX.) | [93] |
| | From Considerations touching the Likeliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church (August, 1659) | [94-96] |
| | Autobiographic passages in the Paradise Lost | [96-102] |
| | To the very distinguished Peter Heimbach, Councillor to the Elector of Brandenburg (Familiar Letters, No. XXXI.) | [102, 103] |
| Passages in Milton's prose and poetical works in which his idea of true liberty, individual, domestic, civil, political, and religious, is explicitly set forth | [104-125] |
| Comus: a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, before the Earl of Bridgewater, then President of Wales | [126-164] |
| Lycidas | [165-179] |
| Samson Agonistes | [181-244] |
| Notes | [245-303] |