Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems
“He had auburn hair. His complexion exceeding fair—he was so fair that they called him the Lady of Christ’s College” (see Aubrey, here). (Illustration Credit col1.)
2012 Modern Library Paperback Edition
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Originally published as part of The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton in hardcover in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2007.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for permission to publish the following material: “Paradise regain’d: A poem. In IV books. To which is added Samson Agonistes” PR 3563 1671; “Facsimile of the manuscript of Milton’s Minor poems, preserved in the library of Tr” Aj M642+B648w; and “Poems of Mr. John Milton: both English and Latin, compos’d at several times” PR 3550 C23. Used by permission.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
How to Use This eBook
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
A CHRONOLOGY OF MILTON’S LIFE
MINUTES OF THE LIFE OF MR. JOHN MILTON, BY JOHN AUBREY
A CHRONOLOGY OF MILTON’S POETRY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
ENGLISH POEMS
Psalm 114
Psalm 136
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
At a Vacation Exercise
Song: On May Morning
The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
The Passion
On Shakespeare
On the University Carrier
Another on the Same
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
Arcades
At a Solemn Music
On Time
Upon the Circumcision
A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 [Comus]
Lycidas
Psalms 80–88
Psalms 1–8
Translations from the Prose Works
ENGLISH AND ITALIAN SONNETS
Sonnets 1–23
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
LATIN AND GREEK POEMS
ELEGIAC VERSES
“Get up, go, get up, it’s time now”
Kings should not oversleep
The Fable of the Peasant and the Lord
A Philosopher to a King
BOOK OF ELEGIES
Elegy 1. To Charles Diodati
Elegy 2. On the Death of the Beadle of Cambridge University
Elegy 3. On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester
Elegy 4. To Thomas Young, his tutor, at present performing the office of chaplain among the English merchants living in Hamburg
Elegy 5. On the Arrival of Spring
Elegy 6. To Charles Diodati, staying in the country
Elegy 7
A postscript to his elegies
On the Gunpowder Plot
On the same
On the same
On the same
On the Inventor of Gunpowder
To Leonora singing in Rome
To the same
To the same
BOOK OF MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician
On the Fifth of November
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely
That Nature does not suffer from old age
Of the Platonic Idea as understood by Aristotle
To His Father
Psalm 114
To Salzilli, the Roman poet, being ill. Scazons
Manso
Epitaph for Damon
On the Engraver of His Portrait
To John Rouse, Librarian of Oxford University
Epigram from A Defense of the English People
Epigrams from A Second Defense
LATE MASTERPIECES
Introduction to Paradise Regained
Paradise Regained
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Introduction to Samson Agonistes
Samson Agonistes
WORKS CITED
About the Editors
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
All illustrations are used with permission.
Illustration Credit col1. The “Onslow” portrait of Milton at age twenty-one, artist unknown. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Illustration Credit fm1. Portrait of Milton at age ten, by Cornelius Janssen. The Pierpont Morgan Library/Art Resource, New York.
Illustration Credit fm3. Title Page of Paradise Regained. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes (London, 1671). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
Illustration Credit 1.1 Lycidas 123–65. Facsimile of the Manuscript of Milton’s Minor Poems, Preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1899. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
Illustration Credit 3.1 Frontispiece portrait of John Milton, by William Marshall. Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, Compos’d at Several Times (London, 1645). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
Most of the many editions, books, and articles cited in the notes and headnotes can be found, alphabetized by author, in the “Works Cited” bibliography at the end of this volume. Where an author’s surname is given without a date, it means that only one of this author’s works has been cited in the edition. Where a name is coupled with a date, it means that at least two works by this author have been cited, or that there are two or more authors with this surname.
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