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.