Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Annabel Patterson; 2. Composition: process and chronology Juliet Lucy; 3. Early lives Edward Jones; 4. Letters, verse letters, and gift-texts Cedric C. Brown; 5. Milton on himself Stephen M. Fallon; 6. Poetic tradition, dramatic Ann Baynes Coiro; 7. Poetic tradition, epic Anthony Welch; 8. Poetic tradition, pastoral Barbara K. Lewalski; 9. Prose style Walter S. H. Lim; 10. Verse and rhyme John Creaser; Part II. Critical Legacy: 11. Critical responses, early John Rumrich; 12. Critical responses, 1825-1970 P. J. Klemp; 13. Critical responses, recent J. Martin Evans; 14. Later publishing history John T. Shawcross; 15. Translations Christophe Tournu; ...