Part I: Transcendence. On the early poems
On "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso"
On the work not called Comus
On engagement in A Masque
On "Lycidas" as primitive art
Part II: Engagement. On the interstitial Latin poems and an English fragment
On the sonnets and shorter poems of the political period
On the romantics and the principles of Milton
Part III: Transcendental engagement. On history in Paradise Lost
On the origin in Paradise Lost
On the verse of Paradise Lost
On the sublime in Paradise Lost
On temptation in Paradise Lost
On the end in Paradise Lost
On late style in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
Appendix I: references and texts
Appendix II: chronology of the poems
