Includes bibliographical references (pages [308]-334) and index.
The archival landscape of Milton's youth, university years, and pre-London residencies / Edward Jones -- 'The arms of studious retirement'? : Milton's scholarship, 1632-1641 / William Poole -- Milton and the confessionalization of antiquarianism / Thomas Roebuck -- Milton and the conformable puritanism of Richard Stock and Thomas Young / Jeffrey Alan Miller -- John Milton and Charles Diodati : reading the textual exchanges of friends / Cedric C. Brown -- Milton and the idea of the university / Sarah Knight -- Obituary and rapture in Milton's memorial Latin poems / Noam Reisner -- Milton on tragedy : law, hypallage, and participation / Andrew Zurcher -- The design of the 1645 Poems / Stella P. Revard -- 'Oh my simplicity' : revising childhood in Milton's Ludlow Maske / Blaine Greteman -- That two-handed engine and the millennium at the door / John Leonard -- Early poems and prose : some hidden continuities / Christopher Tilmouth