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