NOTE ON TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS

In the notes the place of publication is London unless otherwise stated. All references to Milton’s shorter poems, and to their translations, are to the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. Volume III: The Shorter Poems, ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and Estelle Haan (Oxford, 2012; corrected impression, 2014), unless otherwise stated, and are incorporated into the text by line numbers. All references to Paradise Lost are to the 1674 edition and are incorporated into the text by book and line numbers; all references to Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes are to the Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. Volume II, ed. Laura Lunger Knoppers (Oxford, 2008), and are incorporated by book and line numbers. All references to Milton’s printed prose works are to the first editions unless otherwise stated; references to translations of printed prose and to editions of manuscript writings are specified in the notes.

Abbreviations

Campbell, Milton Chronology	Gordon Campbell, A Milton Chronology (Basingstoke, 1997)
Campbell and Corns, John Milton	Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns, John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (Oxford, 2008)
CELM	Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, 1450–1700, comp. Peter Beal (https://celm-ms.org.uk)
Complete Prose Works	Complete Prose Works of John Milton, gen. ed. Don M. Wolfe, 8 vols. in 10 (New Haven, CT, 1953–82)
Complete Shorter Poems	Milton, Complete Shorter Poems, ed. John Carey, 2nd edn. (Harlow, 1997)
Early Lives	Early Lives of John Milton, ed. Helen Darbishire (1932)
Fletcher, Intellectual Development	Harris F. Fletcher, The Intellectual Development of John Milton, 2 vols. (Urbana, IL, 1956–61)
Lewalski, Life	Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (Oxford, 2000; rev. edn., 2002)
Life Records	Life Records of John Milton, ed. J. Milton French, 5 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ, 1949–58)
McDowell and Smith, Oxford Handbook	Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford, 2009)
ODNB	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Milton	Complete Works of John Milton, gen. eds. Thomas N. Corns and Gordon Campbell (Oxford, 2008–)