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John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose » (1st Edition)

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Authors: John Milton (Editor), Merritt Y. Hughes
ISBN-13: 9780872206786, ISBN-10: 0872206785
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: John Milton

Book Synopsis

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton s poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

	A Chronology of the Main Events in Milton's Life
	Abbreviations of Titles of Milton's Works
	Abbreviations of Titles of Literary and Critical Works Cited in the Notes
	Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals Cited in the Notes
	A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV	3
	Psalm CXXXVI	4
	Verses found with the Commonplace Book: Carmina Elegiaca (Elegiac Verses)	6
	Verses found with the Commonplace Book: Ignavus satrapam dedecet (Slothful sleep disgraces a ruler)	6
	Apologus de Rustico et Hero (Fable of Peasant and Landlord)	6
	Elegia Prima (Elegy I)	7
	The Fifth Ode of Horace	10
	In Obitum Procancellarii Medici (On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician)	11
	Elegia Secunda (Elegy II)	12
	In Proditionem Bombardicam (On the Gunpowder Plot)	13
	In Eandem (On the Same)	13
	In Eandem (On the Same)	14
	In Eandem (On the Same)	14
	In Inventorem Bombardae (On the Inventor of Gunpowder)	14
	In Quintum Novembris (On the Fifth of November)	15
	Elegia Tertia (Elegy III)	21
	In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis (On the Death of the Bishop of Ely)	24
	Elegia Quarta (Elegy IV)	25
	At a Vacation Exercise in the College	30
	Naturam Non Pati Senium (That Nature is Not Subject to Old Age)	32
	On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough	35
	Elegia Quinta (Elegy V)	37
	Song: On May Morning	41
	On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	42
	Elegia Sexta (Elegy VI)	50
	Sonnet I: O Nightingale!	53
	Sonnet II: Donna leggiadra! (Beautiful Lady)	53
	Sonnet III: Qual in colle aspro (As on a Rugged Mountain)	54
	Canzone	54
	Sonnet IV: Diodati, e te'l diro (Diodati, and I will Say It to You)	55
	Sonnet V: Per certo i bei vostr' occhi (In Truth, Your Fair Eyes)	55
	Sonnet VI: Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante (Young, Gentle, and Candid Lover)	56
	De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles Intellexit (On the Platonic Idea as Understood by Aristotle)	56
	Elegia Septima (Elegy VII)	58
	The Passion	61
	On Shakespeare	63
	On the University Carrier	64
	Another on the Same	64
	Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester	65
	L'Allegro	68
	Il Penseroso	72
	Sonnet VII: How Soon Hath Time	76
	Arcades	77
	On Time	80
	Upon the Circumcision	80
	At a Solemn Music	81
	Ad Patrem (To His Father)	82
	A Mask (Comus)	86
	Psalm CXIV	114
	Philosophus ad Regem Quendam (A Philosopher to a Certain King)	115
	Lycidas	116
	Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, Aegrotantem (To Salzilli, a Roman Poet, When He Was Ill)	125
	Mansus (Manso)	127
	Ad Leonoram Romae Canentem (To Leonora Singing in Rome)	130
	Ad Eandem (To the Same)	131
	Ad Eandem (To the Same)	131
	Epitaphium Damonis (Damon's Epitaph)	132
	Translations from Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England	139
	Translations from An Apology for Smectymnuus	140
	Sonnet VIII: When the Assault Was Intended to the City	140
	Sonnet IX: Lady That in the Prime	141
	Translation from Tetrachordon	141
	Sonnet X: To the Lady Margaret Ley	141
	In Effigiei Eius Sculptorem (On the Engraver of His Likeness)	142
	Verses from The History of Britain	142
	Sonnet XI: On the Detraction Which Followed upon My Writing Certain Treatises	143
	Sonnet XII: On the Same	143
	Sonnet XIII: To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs	144
	On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	144
	Sonnet XIV: On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason, My Christian Friend, Deceased, 16 December, 1646	145
	Ad Ioannem Rousium (To John Rouse), Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium (Librarian of Oxford Unversity)	146
	Psalm LXXX	149
	Psalm LXXXI	151
	Psalm LXXXII	152
	Psalm LXXXIII	153
	Psalm LXXXIV	154
	Psalm LXXXV	155
	Psalm LXXXVI	156
	Psalm LXXXVII	157
	Psalm LXXXVIII	158
	Sonnet XV: On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	159
	Latin Verses from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio: In Salmasii Hundredam (Against the Hundred of Salmasius)	160
	Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell	160
	Sonnet XVII: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger	161
	Psalm I	162
	Psalm II	162
	Psalm III	163
	Psalm IV	163
	Psalm V	164
	Psalm VI	165
	Psalm VII	165
	Psalm VIII	167
	Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont	167
	Sonnet XIX: When I Consider	168
	Sonnet XX: Lawrence of Virtuous Father	168
	Sonnet XXI: Cyriack, Whose Grandsire	169
	Sonnet XXII: To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness	170
	Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw	170
	Paradise Lost: Introduction	173
	Book I	211
	Book II	232
	Book III	257
	Book IV	277
	Book V	302
	Book VI	323
	Book VII	345
	Book VIII	362
	Book IX	378
	Book X	406
	Book XI	432
	Book XII	454
	Paradise Regained: Introduction	471
	The First Book	483
	The Second Book	494
	The Third Book	505
	The Fourth Book	515
	Samson Agonistes: Introduction	531
	Samson Agonistes	549
	Some Early Oratorical Performances (Prolusions)	595
	Of Education	630
	The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty	640
	An Apology For Smectymnuus (Selections)	690
	The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Selections)	696
	Areopagitica	716
	The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates	750
	Eikonoklastes (Selections)	781
	The Second Defense of the People of England (Selections)	817
	A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes	839
	Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church	856
	The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth	880
	The Christian Doctrine (Selections)	900
App	Collections for the Life of Milton	1021
App	The Life of Milton	1025
App	An Anonymous Life of Milton	1038
	Index of Names	1045

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Poetry

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