Drawing on the extraordinary wealth of scholarly and critical material on John Milton's life, works and influence, this collection of reprinted articles brings together the most illuminating scholarship that has been written about Milton.

THE POEMS OF 1645 Martz, Louis L. 'The Rising Poet, 1645.' In Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980). Marcus, Leah. 'Milton as Historical Subject.' Milton Quarterly 25 (1991). Ingram, Randall. 'The Writing Poet: The Descent from Song.' Milton Studies 34 (1996). ODES Barker, Arthur. 'The Pattern of Milton's 'Nativity Ode'.' University of Toronto Quarterly 10 (1941). Evans, J. Martin. 'A Poem of Absences.' Milton Quarterly 27 (1993). Quint, David. 'Expectation and Prematurity in Milton's 'Nativity Ode'.' Modern Philology 97 (1999). Hale, John K. 'Milton Meditates the Ode.' Classical and Modern Literature 16 (1996). L'ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO Miller, David M. 'From Delusion to Illumination: A Larger Structure for 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso'.' PMLA 92 (1971). Greene, Thomas M. 'The Meeting Soul in Milton's Companion Poems.' English Literary Renaissance 14 (1984). SONNETS McCarthy, William. 'The Continuity of Milton's Sonnets.' PMLA 92 (1977). Patterson, Annabel. 'That Old Man Eloquent.' In Literary Milton, edited by Diana Trevino Benet and Michael Lieb (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1994). LYCIDAS Evans, J. Martin. 'Lycidas, Daphnis, and Gallus.' In English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner, edited by John Carey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). Fish, Stanley. ''Lycidas': A Poem Finally Anonymous.' Glyph 8 (1981). Lipking, Lawrence. 'The Genius of the Shore: 'Lycidas', 'Adamastor', and the Poetics of Nationalism.' PMLA 111 (1996). COMUS Woodhouse, A. S. P. 'The Argument of Milton's 'Comus'.' University of Toronto Quarterly 11 (1941). Adams, Robert. 'Reading 'Comus'.' Modern Philology 51 (1953). Sensabaugh, George F. 'The Milieu of 'Comus'.' Studies in Philology 41 (1944). Marcus, Leah. 'The Earl of Bridgewater's Legal Life: Notes toward a Political Reading of 'Comus'.' Milton Quarterly 21 (1987). Martin, Jeanne. 'Transformation of Genre in Milton's 'Comus'.' Genre 10 (1977). LATIN POEMS Condee, Ralph W. 'The Latin Poetry of John Milton.' In The Latin Poetry of English Poets, edited by J. W. Binns (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974). Corns, Thomas. 'Ideology in the Poemata (1645).' Milton Studies 19 (1984).