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.
Table of Contents
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- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- POEMS OF Mr. John Milton, BOTH ENGLISH and LATIN, Compos’d at several times.
- THE STATIONER
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
- On the Morning of Christs Nativity.
- The Hymn.
- A Paraphrase on Psalm 114.
- Psalm 136.
- The Passion.
- On Time.
- Upon the Circumcision.
- At a Solemn Musick.
- An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.
- SONG
- Another on the same.
- L’Allegro.
- Il Penseroso.
- SONNETS.
- Arcades.
- JUST A EDOVARDO KING naufrago, ab Amicis mœrentibus, amoris μνείας χάϐιν.
- Lycidas.
- A MASKE PRESENTED At Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michaelmasse night, before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord Præsident of Wales, And one of His Maiesties most honorable Privie Counsell.
- 1To the Right Honourable, John Lord Vicount Bracly, Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater, c.
- 1The Copy of a Letter writt’n by Sir Henry Wootton, to the Author, upon the following Poem.
- The Persons.
- A MASK Presented At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. c.
- The first Scene discovers a wilde Wood.
- SONG.
- POEMS ADDED IN THE 1673 EDITION.
- Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough.
- Anno Aetatis 19. At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, part Latin, part English. The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began.
- The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.
- SONNETS.
- XII.: On the same.
- To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.
- On the late Massacher in Piemont.
- On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT.
- On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the seige of Colchester.
- To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.
- To Sr Henry Vane the younger.
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness.
- PSAL. I. Done into Verse, 1653.
- PSAL. II. Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.
- PSAL. III. Aug. 9. 1653. When he fled from Absalom.
- PSAL. IV. Aug. 10. 1653.
- PSAL. V. Aug. 12. 1653.
- PSAL. VI. Aug. 13. 1653.
- PSAL. VII. Aug. 14. 1653. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him.
- PSAL. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653.
- April, 1648. J. M. Nine of the Psalms done into Metre, wherein all but what is in a different Character, are the very words of the Text, translated from the Original.
- PSAL. LXXX.
- PSAL. LXXXI.
- PSAL. LXXXII.
- PSAL. LXXXIII.
- PSAL. LXXXIV.
- PSAL. LXXXV.
- PSAL. LXXXVI.
- PSAL. LXXXVII.
- PSAL. LXXXVIII.
- Passages from Prose Writings.
- A COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE PROSE WRITINGS.
- Joannis Miltoni LONDINENSIS POEMATA. Quorum pleraque intra Annum ætatis Vigesimum Conscripsit.
- Joannes Baptista Mansus, Marchio Villensis Neapolitanus ad Joannem Miltonium Anglum.
- Ad Joannem Miltonem Anglum triplici poeseos laureâ coronandum Græcâ nimirum, Latinâ, atque Hetruscâ, Epigramma Joannis Salsilli Romani.
- Ad Joannem Miltonum.
- Al Signor Gio. Miltoni Nobile Inglese.
- JOANNI MILTONI
- LONDINIENSI.
- ELEGIARUM Liber Primus.
- Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum.
- Elegia secunda, Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis.
- Elegia tertia, Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.
- Elegia quarta. Anno ætatis 18. Ad Thomam Junium præceptorem suum apud mercatores Anglicos Hamburgæ agentes Pastoris munere fungentem.
- Elegia quinta, Anno ætatis 20. In adventum veris.
- Elegia sexta. Ad Carolum Diodatum ruri commorantem.
- Elegia septima, Anno ætatis undevigesimo.
- In Proditionem Bombardicam.
- In eandem.
- In eandem.
- In eandem.
- In inventorem Bombardæ.
- Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem.
- Ad eandem.
- Ad eandem.
- Apologus de Rustico Hero.
- In Salmasii Hundredam.
- In Salmasium.
- SYLVARUM LIBER.
- Anno ætatis 16. In obitum Procancellarii medici.
- In quintum Novembris, Anno ætatis 17.
- Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præsulis Eliensis.
- Naturam non pati senium.
- De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit.
- Ad Patrem.
- Psalm 114.
- Philosophus ad regem quendam qui eum ignotum insontem inter reos forte captum inscius damnaverat τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ πορευόμενος, hæc subito misit.
- In Effigiei ejus Sculptorem.
- Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum ægrotantem. SCAZONTES.
- Miscellaneous Poems.
- Mansus.
- Epitaphium Damonis.
- EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS. Argumentum.
- Ad Joannem Rousium.
- Jan. 23. 1646. Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiæ Bibliothecarium.
- PARADISE LOST.
- Paradise lost. A POEM Written in TEN BOOKS
- Paradise Lost. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS.
- IN Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ JOHANNIS MILTONI.
- ON Paradise Lost.
- The Printer to the Reader.
- The Verse.
- BOOK I.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK II.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK III.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK IV.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK V.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK VI.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK VII.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK VIII.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK IX.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK X.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK XI.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- BOOK XII.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- PARADISE REGAIND. A POEM.
- The First Book.
- The Second Book.
- The Third Book.
- The Fourth Book.
- SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATIC POEM.
- Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy.
- The ARGUMENT.
- The Persons.
- AGONISTES.
- APPENDIX.
- (a): Specimen of Milton’s spelling, from the Cambridge autograph manuscript.
- On Time
- (b): Note of a few readings in the same manuscript.
- At a Solemn Musick.
- Arcades.
- Lycidas.
- A Mask.
- (c)
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