The Poetical Works of John Milton
- John Milton (author)
- Henry Charles Beeching (editor)
A modern edition of the major poems of Milton. It contains the shorter poems, Paradise Lost and Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
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They err who count it glorious to subdue By Conquest far and wide, to over-run Large Countries, and in field great Battels win, Great Cities by assault: what do these Worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable Nations, neighbouring, or remote, Made Captive, yet deserving…
War & Peace
O yet a nobler task awaites thy hand; For what can Warr, but endless warr still breed, Till Truth, & Right from Violence be freed, And Public Faith cleard from the shamefull brand Of Public Fraud. In vain doth Valour bleed While Avarice, & Rapine share the land.
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And Eve first to her Husband thus began. Adam, well may we labour still to dress This Garden, still to tend Plant, Herb and Flour. Our pleasant task enjoyn’d, but till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint; what we by day [210] Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop,…
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For therein stands the office of a King, His Honour, Vertue, Merit and chief Praise, That for the Publick all this weight he bears. Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, Desires, and Fears, is more a King; Which every wise and vertuous man attains: And who attains not, ill aspires…
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The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free: th’Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us…
Critical Responses
Article
Paradise Lost and Beowulf: The Christian/Pagan Hybrids of the Epic TraditionJennifer Smith
Smith examines the mixture of Christian beliefs and Pagan traditions in Beowulf and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Book
Criticism on Paradise LostJoseph Addiso
In 1711, Joseph Addison wrote several articles in his daily publication The Spectator criticizing Milton’s Paradise Lost. This book is a compilation of these articles.
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