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This volume contains the principal English poems of Milton's youth and early adulthood, most of the sonnets written during the Puritan Revolution, when he was chiefly engaged in arguing public questions in prose, and Samson Agonistes, published three years before his death.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Principal Dates in Milton’s Life xi

On the Morning of Christs Nativity 1

On the Shakespear 9

L’Allegro 10

Il Penseroso 15

Song: On May Morning 20

At a Solemn Musick 20

Lycidas 21

Sonnets 28

“O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray” 28

“How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth” 28

On the Detraction which Follow’d upon my Writing Certain Treatises 29

On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 29

To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652 30

To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 31

On the Late Massacher in Piemont 31

“When I consider how my light is spent” 32

“Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son” 32

To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness 33

“Methought I saw my late espoused Saint” 33

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 34

Comus, A Mask 35

Samson Agonistes 65

Selected Bibliography 113

Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 26 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9780882950587
      978-0882950587
      ISBN-10 0882950584

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume contains the principal English poems of Milton's youth and early adulthood, most of the sonnets written during the Puritan Revolution, when he was chiefly engaged in arguing public questions in prose, and Samson Agonistes, published three years before his death.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction vii

      Principal Dates in Milton’s Life xi

      On the Morning of Christs Nativity 1

      On the Shakespear 9

      L’Allegro 10

      Il Penseroso 15

      Song: On May Morning 20

      At a Solemn Musick 20

      Lycidas 21

      Sonnets 28

      “O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray” 28

      “How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth” 28

      On the Detraction which Follow’d upon my Writing Certain Treatises 29

      On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 29

      To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652 30

      To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 31

      On the Late Massacher in Piemont 31

      “When I consider how my light is spent” 32

      “Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son” 32

      To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness 33

      “Methought I saw my late espoused Saint” 33

      On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 34

      Comus, A Mask 35

      Samson Agonistes 65

      Selected Bibliography 113

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