1.The Miltonic paradigm: 1.How Milton works.
2.Milton's aesthetic of testimony.
3.Problem solving in Comus.
2.The paradigm under the pressure of time, interpretation, and death: 5.Driving from the letter: truth and indeterminacy in Milton's Areopagitica.
6.Wanting a supplement: the question of interpretation in Milton's early prose.
7.Lycidas: a poem finally anonymous.
8.With mortal voice: Milton defends against the muse.
3.The counter paradigm: 9.The temptation to action.
10.The temptation of speech.
11.The temptation of plot.
12.The temptation of understanding.
13.The temptation of intelligibility.
4.The paradigm reaffirmed (almost) without apology: 14.Gently raised.
Epilogue: the temptation of history and politics.