And crimson-hued the stately palmwoods

Whisper in odorous heights of even.'

—Tennyson.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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]