1Opening Anno, Introduction: Two University Scenes
10Chapter 9, In Pursuit of Patronage, 'Pluto's Helmet'
2Part 1, London and St Paul's School, 1608–25, Chapter 1 - Londiniensis
11Chapter 10 - Many Are the Shapes of Things Daemonic, Pagan Virtue
3Chapter 2 - Pure Chaste Eloquence
12Part 4, Horton and Italy, 1635-9, Chapter 11 - The Circle of Studies, Identity and Belief in 1636
4Chapter 3 - The Pursuit of Universal Learning
13Chapter 12 - Love and Death in 'Lycidas', Two Sorts of Shepherd
5Part 2, Cambridge and Christ's College, 1625–9, Chapter 4 - Philology and Philosophy: 'Whip't Him'
14Chapter 13 - Writing and Society in 'Lycidas', 'Run Amarillis Run'
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6Chapter 5 - Beginning as a Poet
15Chapter 14 - Come un Virtuoso, In Circe's Court
7Chapter 6 - Heroes and Daemons, Miscellany Poet
16Part 5, London and Aldersgate Street, 1639-42, Chapter 15 - Becoming a Polemicist, The Method of History
8Chapter 7 - The Poetics of Play and Devotion, 'His Hand Unstained'
17Chapter 16 - The Poetics of Polemic, 'Struggle of Contrarieties'
9Part 3, Cambridge and Hammersmith, 1629-35, Chapter 8 - Laudian Poet?, 'Tenet of the Apocalyptical Beast'
18Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic, Closing Anno
