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Tables of Contents for The Major Works
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Acknowledgements
xxviii
Chronology
xxix
Note on the Text
xxxi
Letter to a Friend (?1633)
1
2
Poems 1645
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
3
7
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
10
1
Psalm 136
11
2
The Passion
13
2
On Time
15
1
Upon the Circumcision
16
1
At a Solemn Music
17
1
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
17
2
Song. On May Morning
19
1
On Shakespeare: 1630
20
1
On the University Carrier
20
1
Another on the Same
21
1
L'Allegro
22
3
II Penseroso
25
5
(`O nightingale')
30
1
(`Donna leggiadra')
30
1
(`Qual in colle aspro')
31
1
Canzone
32
1
(`Diodati, e te'l diro')
32
1
(`Per certo')
33
1
(`Giovane piano')
34
1
(`How soon hath time')
34
1
(`Captain or colonel')
35
1
(`Lady, that in the prime')
35
1
(`Daughter to that good earl')
36
1
Arcades
36
3
Lycidas
39
5
A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle [`Comus']
44
29
English Poems Added in 1673
On the Death of a Fair Infant
73
2
At a Vacation Exercise
75
3
(`A book was writ of late')
78
1
On the Same (`I did but prompt the age')
79
1
To Mr H. Lawes (`Harry whose tuneful')
79
1
(`When faith and love')
80
1
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
80
1
(`When I consider how my light is spent')
81
1
(`Lawrence of virtuous father')
81
1
(`Cyriack, whose gandsire')
82
1
(`Methought I saw my late espoused saint')
82
1
The Fifth Ode of Horace
83
1
On the New Forcers of Conscience
83
2
Uncollected English Poems
On the Lord General Fairfax
85
1
To the Lord General Cromwell
85
1
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
86
1
To Mr Cyriack Skinner Upon his Blindness
86
2
Latin Poems
To Charles Diodati
88
4
On the Death of the Cambridge University Beadle
92
2
On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester
94
4
To His Tutor, Thomas Young
98
6
On the Approach of Spring
104
8
To Charles Diodati, Staying in the Country
112
4
(`Nondum blanda tuas leges')
116
8
[Epilogue to the Elegies]
122
2
On the Fifth of November
124
10
To my Father
134
6
To Salzilli
140
2
Manso
142
6
Damon's Epitaph
148
14
Greek Poem Added in 1673
On the Engraver of his Portrait
162
1
Uncollected Latin Poem
Elegaic Verses
163
2
Prose Works
From The Reason of Church Government
165
8
From An Apology for Smectymnuus
173
9
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
182
44
Of Education
226
10
Areopagitica
236
37
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
273
35
From Second Defence of the English People
308
22
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
330
25
Major Poems
Paradise Lost
355
264
Paradise Regained
619
52
Samson Agonistes
671
46
Familiar Letters 1674
To Charles Diodati, 1637
717
2
To Benedetto Buonmattei, 1638
719
2
To Leonard Philaris, 1654
721
2
From Christian Doctrine
723
12
Notes
735
225
Further Reading
960
3
Index of Titles and First Lines
963