Selected Poems

By: John Milton

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Paperback | 27 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection in this new edition spans his entire career, from his earliest works to the magnificent epics of his later life. The devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', his first great poem, anticipates the probing religious questions of Paradise Lost. Works such as 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' consider divisions of loyalties, while 'A Masque' ('Comus') explores Milton's great theme of temptation, and the pastoral elegy 'Lycidas' contemplates mortality and the meaning of human life. This volume includes considerable selections from Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - Milton's late epics on the Fall of Man and Christ's temptation in the wilderness - and the complete Samson Agonistes, in which the great hero undergoes a profound crisis of faith in his final hours.

About The Author

John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. By 1660, he was completely blind but continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.

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from Poems 1645	p. 3
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	p. 3
On Time	p. 12
At a Solemn Music	p. 12
Song, On May Morning	p. 13
On Shakespeare, 1630	p. 14
On the University Carrier	p. 14
L'Allegro	p. 15
Il Penseroso	p. 19
Sonnet I ('O nightingale')	p. 24
Sonnet VII ('How soon hath Time')	p. 24
Sonnet VIII When the Assault was Intended to the City	p. 25
Sonnet IX ('Lady that in the prime')	p. 25
Sonnet X ('Daughter to that good Earl')	p. 26
Lycidas	p. 26
A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']	p. 32
from English Poems Added in 1673	p. 62
Sonnet XI On the Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises	p. 62
Sonnet XII On the Same	p. 63
Sonnet XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Airs	p. 63
Sonnet XIV On the religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason	p. 64
Sonnet XV On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	p. 64
Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent')	p. 65
Sonnet XVII ('Lawrence of virtuous father')	p. 65
Sonnet XVIII ('Cyriack, whose grandsire')	p. 66
Sonnet XIX ('Methought I saw my late espoused saint')	p. 66
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	p. 67
Uncollected English Sonnets	p. 68
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	p. 68
To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652	p. 69
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger	p. 69
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness	p. 70
from Paradise Lost: Book I	p. 72
from Paradise Lost: Book II	p. 93
from Paradise Lost: Book IV	p. 121
from Paradise Lost: Book IX	p. 148
from Paradise Regained	p. 181
from The First Book	p. 181
from The Second Book	p. 188
from The Third Book	p. 193
The Fourth Book	p. 197
Samson Agonistes	p. 214
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