Introduction: Milton's languages in the context of Renaissance multilingualism
Part I. Milton's Exercising of his Languages: 1. The multilingual self presented in Milton's poems (1645)
2. The development and quality of Milton's multilingual verse
3. The Italian journey (1638-9) and language-choice
4. Milton's arts of language: translating and philology
5. Milton's Latin prose
Conclusion
Part II. Multilingualism and the Major English Poems: 6. Latin and Milton's other languages in the style of Paradise Lost
7. Milton's languages and the voices of Paradise Lost
8. Multilingualism and epic
9. Multilingualism and the style of temperance in Paradise Regained
10. Hebrew meets Greek in Samson Agonistes
11. The impact of Milton's languages upon his mature English verse styles
Appendix: on translating Milton's Latin
Bibliography.
