Milton: Poems
Published on 25. July 2012
256 pages
978-0-307-82358-8 (ISBN)
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The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes, as well as Books I--XII of Paradise Lost.
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JOHM MILTON (1608-74) was one of England's greatest poets and a master of polemical prose. He was a private tutor and served as Secretary for Foreign Tongues under Oliver Cromwell.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Sonnets
- When I consider how my light is spent
- O nightingale that on yon bloomy spray
- To Mr H. Lawes, on his Airs
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
- Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catherine Thomason
- Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth
- To the Lady Margaret Ley
- Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son
- Cyriack, whose grandsire on the Royal Bench
- Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
- The Detraction which Followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises
- On the Same
- On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
- On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
- To the Lord General Cromwell
- To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
- On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
- Occasional Poems
- The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I
- Lycidas
- L'Allegro
- Il Penseroso
- At a Solemn Music
- On Shakespeare. 1630
- On the University Carrier
- From Comus
- From Samson Agonistes
- From Paradise Lost
- The Printer to the Reader
- 'The Verse'
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
- Book IV
- Book V
- Book VI
- Book VII
- Book VIII
- Book IX
- Book X
- Book XI
- Book XII
