1. reading of his "left hand" : Milton's prose / Robert Thomas Fallon
2. "Shedding sweet influence" : the legacy of John Milton's works / John T. Shawcross
3. "The world all before [us]" : more than three hundred years of criticism / Roy Flannagan
4. First and last fruits of education : the companion poems, epistola, and educational prose works / Angelica Duran
5. Milton's heroic sonnets / Annabel Patterson
6. lives of Lycidas / Paul Alpers
7. mask : tradition and innovation / Katsuhiro Engetsu
8. Bible, religion, and spirituality in Paradise lost / Achsah Guibbory
9. Gender, sex, and marriage in paradise / Karen L. Edwards
10. ecology of Paradise lost / Juliet Lucy Cummins
11. messianic vision of Paradise regained / David Gay
12. nightmare of history : Samson Agonistes / Louis Schwartz
Select chronology : "speak of things at hand/useful" / Edward Jones
Select bibliography : "much arguing, much writing, many opinions" / J. Martin Evans.