Author:John Milton

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John Milton
(1608–1674)

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English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost

Works

Areopagitica (1644)
- Areopagitica from The Harvard Classics, Volume 3 (1909) (transcription project)
Tractate on Education (1673), from The Harvard Classics, Volume 3 (1909) (transcription project)
Comus
Il Penseroso
L'Allegro
Lycidas
Paradise Lost
first edition (1667)

second edition (1674), revised—the edition most commonly used

1890 reprint
Paradise Regained (1671) (start transcription)
Samson Agonistes (1671) (external scan)

Short poems

On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough (1626)
On the Lord General Fairfax
Tales of a Man (1632)

From Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times (1645):

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
Psalm 136
The Passion
On Time
Upon the Circumcision (1633)
At a Solemn Musick
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
On May Morning
On Shakespear (1630, publ. 1632)
On the University Carrier (1631)
Another on the same (1631)

Sonnets

From Poems (1645) (transcription project)

I - O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
II - Donna Leggiadra il cui bel nome honora
III - Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera
Canzone
IV - 'Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia
V - Diodati, e te'l dirò con maraviglia
VI - Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante
VII - How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth
VIII - Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms
IX - Lady that in the prime of earliest youth
X - Daughter to that good Earl, once President, To y^e Lady Margaret Ley From Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions (1673)
XI - A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon
XII - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
XIII - Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song
XIV - When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
XV - On the late Massacher in Piemont
XVI - When I consider how my light is spent
XVII - Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son
XVIII - Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench
XIX - Methought I saw my late espoused Saint

Uncollected sonnets

Works about Milton

The Life of John Milton (1877, Vol. 4) by David Masson (external scan)
Introduction to The Prose Works of John Milton (1847) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
"Milton, John (1608-1674)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Milton, John," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Milton, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Milton, John," by David Masson et al. in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"New Lights on Milton" in Studies of a Biographer (1902) by Leslie Stephen

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