The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton by Milton, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright How to Use This eBook Contents List of Illustrations General Preface 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 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 Lost Paradise Lost

Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII

Introduction to Paradise Regained Paradise Regained

Book I Book II Book III Book IV

Introduction to Samson Agonistes Samson Agonistes

Prose Works

Familiar Letters

Diodati Greets Milton Cheerfully Diodati Greets Milton To Alexander Gill Letter to a Friend To Charles Diodati To the Same Sir Henry Wotton to Milton To Lukas Holste in the Vatican at Rome To Leonard Philaras To the Most Distinguished Mr. Henry de Brass

Prolusions

Prolusion 1 Prolusion 7

Controversial Prose

Selections from Of Reformation A Selection from The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty, The Second Book A Selection from An Apology for Smectymnuus Selections from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Areopagitica Of Education Selections from Tetrachordon Selections from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Selections from Eikonoklastes Selections from Second Defense of the English People The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth Selections from Christian Doctrine

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