pt. 1. The cultural context. Genre / Barbara K. Lewalski
The classical literary tradition / John K. Hale
Milton on the Bible / Regina M. Schwartz
Literary baroque and literary neoclassicism / Graham Parry
Milton and English poetry / Achsah Guibbory
Milton's English / Thomas N. Corns
pt. 2. Politics and religion. The legacy of the late Jacobean Period / Cedric C. Brown
Milton and puritanism / N.H. Keeble
Radical heterodoxy and heresy / John Rumrich
Milton and ecology / Diane Kelsey McColley
The English and other peoples / Andrew Hadfield
The literature of controversy / Joad Raymond
pt. 3. Texts. "On the morning of Christ's nativity", "Upon the circumcision" and "The Passion" / Thomas N. Corns
John Milton's Comus / Leah S. Marcus
"Lycidas" / Stella P. Revard
Early political prose / Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler
Milton, marriage and divorce / Annabel Patterson
Republicanism / Martin Dzelzainis
Late political prose / Laura Lunger Knoppers
Paradise Lost in intellectual history / Stephen M. Fallon
The radical religious politics of Paradise Lost / David Loewenstein
Obedience and autonomy in Paradise Lost / Michael Schoenfeldt
Paradise Lost and the multiplicity of time / Amy Boesky
Self-contradicting puns in Paradise Lost / John Leonard
Samson Agonistes / Sharon Achinstein
Paradise Regained / Margaret Kean
pt. 4. Influences and reputation. Reading Milton, 1674-1800 / Kay Gilliland Stevenson
Milton : the romantics and after / Peter J. Kitson
pt. 5. Biography. The life records / Gordon Campbell.