group of scholars. By that date the typescript was in the publishers’ hands, so I was not able to incorporate as much from these exciting exchanges as I would have wished; but I owe a great debt of gratitude to the Folger Library for the invitation, to its unfailingly kind and helpful staff, and to all who attended the seminar, especially perhaps Professors Stanley Fish, Gary Hamilton, Fredrica Lehrman, Joseph Martin, Jean-Kathleen Moss, Florence Sandler, Edward Weismiller and Dr. Brenda Szittya. My greatest debt is to my family for their forbearance, and especially to Bridget for her sympathetic understanding, unfailing encouragement and judicious goading.
The following abbreviations have been used in the text and notes:
| C. and C. | C. Hill, Change and Continuity in 17th-Century England (1974) |
| C. and F. | The Poems of John Milton (ed. J. Carey and A. Fowler, 1968) |
| C.M. | ed. F. A. Patterson and others, The Works of John Milton (Columbia U.P., 1931–40, 20 vols.) |
| C.P.W. | ed. D. M. Wolfe, Complete Prose Works of John Milton (Yale U.P., 1953. 6 vols. so far published) |
| C.S.P. | Calendar of State Papers |
| French | ed. J. M. French, Life Records of John Milton (Rutgers U.P., 1949–58, 5 vols.) |
| Masson | David Masson, Life of Milton (1859–80, 7 vols.) |
| O.U.P. | Oxford University Press |
| P.L. | Paradise Lost |
| P.R. | Paradise Regained |
| Parker | W. R. Parker, Milton: A Biography (O.U.P., 1968, 2 vols.) |
| S.A. | Samson Agonistes |
| S. and P. | C. Hill, Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (Panther edn., 1969). First published 1964 |
| U.P. | University Press |
| W.T.U.D. | C. Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (Penguin edn., 1975). First published 1972 |
I—VERSE
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629)
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso (c. 1631 ?)
Comus, A Masque (1634, published 1637)
Ad Patrem (1630s)
Lycidas (1638)
Epitaphium Damonis (1640)
Poems (1645)
Paradise Lost (1667)
Paradise Regained (1671)
Samson Agonistes (1671)
Poems (second edn., 1673)
II—ENGLISH PROSE
Commonplace Book (1630s onwards). C.P.W., I, pp. 362–508
Of Reformation (May 1641). C.P.W., I, pp. 519–617
Of Prelatical Episcopacy (June or July 1641). C.P.W., I, pp. 624–52
Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus (July 1641). C.P.W., I, pp. 662–735
The Reason of Church Government (January or February 1642). C.P.W., I, pp. 746–861
An Apology against a Pamphlet (April 1642). C.P.W., I, pp. 868–953
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (August 1643). C.P.W., II, pp. 222–356
Of Education (June 1644). C.P.W., II, pp. 362–415
The Judgment of Martin Bucer (July 1644). C.P.W., II, pp. 422–79
Areopagitica (November 1644). C.P.W., II, pp. 486–570
Tetrachordon (March 1645). C.P.W., II, pp. 578–718
Colasterion (March 1645). C.P.W., II, pp. 722–58
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (February 1649). C.P.W., III, pp. 190–258
Observations upon the Articles of Peace (May 1649). C.P.W., III, pp. 260–334
Eikonoklastes (October 1649). C.P.W., III, pp. 337–601
A Treatise of Civil Power (February 1659). C.M., VI, pp. 1–41
Considerations touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church (May 1659). C.M., VI, pp. 43–100
A Letter to a Friend (October 1659). C.M., VI, pp. 101–6
Proposalls of Certaine Expedients (November 1659: published 1938). C.M., XVIII, pp. 3–7
The Ready and Easy Way to establish a Free Commonwealth (March 1660). C.M., VI, pp. 111–44
A Letter to Monck (March 1660). C.M., VI, pp. 107–9
Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon (April 1660). C.M., VI, pp. 151–63
Accidence Commenced Grammar (1669). C.M., VI, pp. 285–353
The History of Britain (1647 onwards: published 1671). C.P.W., V, pp. 1–403
Character of the Long Parliament (1647 onwards: published 1681). C.P.W., V, pp. 440–51
Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration (1673). C.M., VI, pp. 165–80
A Declaration or Letters-Patents (1674). C.M., VI, pp. 273–84
A Brief History of Moscovia (published 1682). C.M., X, pp. 327–72
Letters of State (published 1694)
III—LATIN PROSE
Prolusions (1628–32: published 1674). C.P.W., I, pp. 216–306
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio (February 1651). C.P.W., IV, pp. 301–537
Defensio Secunda (May 1654). C.P.W., IV, pp. 548–686
Pro Se Defensio (August 1655). C.P.W., IV, pp. 698–825
Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio (1672). C.M., XI, pp. 3–515
Epistolarum Familiarum Liber Unus (1674)
De Doctrina Christiana (?1655–74: published 1825). C.P.W., VI, pp. 117–807
