PARADISE LOST 1
INTRODUCTION 1
Ⅰ．Earliest Editions of the Poem 1
Ⅱ．Origin of the Poem and History of its Composition 9
Ⅲ．Scheme and Meaning of the Poem 18
Commendatory Verses，prefixed to the Second Edition 37
Author＇s Preface on＂The Verse＂ 41
TEXT OF THE POEM 43
Book Ⅰ 43
Book Ⅱ 61
Book Ⅲ 84
Book Ⅳ 101
Book Ⅴ 124
Book Ⅵ 144
Book Ⅶ 164
Book Ⅷ 179
Book Ⅸ 194
Book Ⅹ 220
Book Ⅺ 245
Book Ⅻ 265
PARADISE REGAINED 281
INTRODUCTION 283
TEXT OF THE POEM 291
Book Ⅰ 293
Book Ⅱ 305
Book Ⅲ 316
Book Ⅳ 326
SAMSON AGONISTES 341
INTRODUCTION 343
The Author＇s Preface：＂Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called Tragedy＂ 353
The Argument，and the Persons 355
TEXT OF THE POEM 357
MINOR POEMS 395
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 397
INTRODUCTIONS TO THE POEMS SEVERALLY：－ 401
Part Ⅰ．－Introductions to the English Poems 403
Part Ⅱ．－Introductions to the Latin Poems 450
Moseley＇s Preface to the Edition of 1645 474
Part Ⅰ．－The English Poems 475
Paraphrases on Psalms CXIV and CXXXVI 477
On the Death of a Fair Infant dying of a Cough 480
At a Vacation Exercise in the College 482
On the Morning of Christ＇s Nativity 485
Upon the Circumcision 492
The Passion 493
On Time 495
At a Solemn Music 496
Song on May Morning 496
On Shakespeare 497
On the University Carrier 497
Auther on the Same 498
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester 498
L＇Allegro 500
Il Penseroso 503
Arcades 508
Comus；a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle，1634： 511
Lawes＇s Dedication of the Edition of 1637 511
Sir Henry Wotton＇s Commendatory Letter of 1638 511
The Persons 513
Text of the Masque 514
Lycidas 538
Sonnets and Kindred Piece 543
Sonnet Ⅰ．To the Nightingale 543
Sonnet Ⅱ．On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three 543
Sonnet Ⅲ．Donna leggiadra，＆c 544
Sonnet Ⅳ．Qualin colle aspro，＆c 544
Canzone 544
Sonnet Ⅴ．Diodati (et＇l diro，＆c．) 545
Sonnet Ⅵ．Per certo，＆c 545
Sonnet Ⅶ．Giovane，piano，＆c 545
Sonnet Ⅷ．When the Assault was intended to the City 546
Sonnet Ⅸ．To a Lady 546
Sonnet Ⅹ．To the Lady Margaret Ley 547
Sonnet Ⅺ．On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises 547
Sonnet Ⅻ．On the Same 547
On the New Forcers of Conscience 548
Sonnet ⅩⅢ．To Mr．H．Lawes on His Airs 548
Sonnet ⅩⅣ．On the Religious Memory of Mrs．Catherine Thomson 549
Sonnet ⅩⅤ．On the Lord General Fairfax 549
Sonnet ⅩⅥ．To the Lord General Cromwell 550
Sonnet ⅩⅦ．To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 550
Sonnet ⅩⅧ．On the late Massacre in Piedmont 550
Sonnet ⅩⅨ．On His Blindness 551
Sonnet ⅩⅩ．To Mr．Lawrence 551
Sonnet ⅩⅪ．To Cyriack Skinner 552
Sonnet ⅩⅫ．To the Same 552
Sonnet ⅩⅩⅢ．To the Memory of his Second Wife 552
Translations 554
The Fifth Ode of Horace，Lib．I 554
Nine of the Psalms done into Metre，1648 555
Eight of the Psalms done into Verse，1653 567
Scraps from the Prose Writings 574
Part Ⅱ．－The Latin Poems 577
De Auctore Testimonia 578
Elegiarum Liber 582
Elegia Ⅰ．Ad Carolum Diodatum 582
Elegia Ⅱ．In obitum Praeconis Academici Cantabrigiensis 584
Elegia Ⅲ．In obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis 584
Elegia Ⅳ．Ad Thomam Junium，Praeceptorum suum 586
Elegia Ⅴ．In Adventum Veris 589
Elegia Ⅵ．Ad Carolum Diodatum，ruri commorantem 592
Elegia Ⅶ．Anno aetatis undevigesimo 594
In Proditionem Bombardicam 597
In Eandem 597
In Eandem 597
In Eandem 598
In Inventorem Bombardae 598
Ad Leonoram Romae Canentem 598
Ad Eadem 598
Ad Eandem 599
Apologus de Rustico et Hero 599
De Moro 599
Ad Christinam，Suecorum Reginam，nomine Cromwelli 599
Sylvarum Liber 600
In obitum Procancellarii Medici 600
In Quintum Novembris 601
In obitum Praesulis Eliensis 606
Naturam non pati Senium 607
De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit 609
Ad Patrem 610
Greek Verses 613
Ad Salsillum，Poetam Romanum，aegrotantem 614
Mansus 615
Epitaphium Damonis 617
Ad Joannem Rousium，Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium 622
In Salmasii Hundredam 625
In Salmasium 625