The Complete English Poems of John Milton Introduction by Gordon Campbell

by Milton, John; Campbell, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780679409977
• ISBN10: 0679409971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-15
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

Introduction by Gordon Campbell

Author Biography

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester. He was editor of the journal Renaissance Studies (1987–
96) and since 1997 has been General Editor of The Review of English Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Select Bibliography	xxx
Chronology	xxxiv
The Everyman Milton	lxvii
Acknowledgements	lxxii
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
The Stationer to the Reader	3	(1)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	4	(10)
On the Death of a Fair Infant	14	(3)
At a Vacation Exercise	17	(4)
The Passion	21	(2)
On Time	23	(1)
Upon the Circumcision	24	(1)
At a Solemn Music	25	(2)
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester	27	(3)
Song on May Morning	30	(1)
On Shakespeare. 1630	30	(1)
On the University Carrier	31	(1)
Another on the Same	32	(2)
L'Allegro	34	(5)
Il Penseroso	39	(6)
Arcades	45	(4)
Lycidas	49	(6)
`Fix here'	55	(4)
A Masque (Comus)	59	(33)
Sonnets
`O nightingale'	92	(1)
`Donna leggiadra'	92	(1)
`Qual in colle aspro'	93	(1)
Canzone (`Ridonsi donne')	94	(1)
`Diodati, e te 'l diro'	94	(1)
`Per certo i bei vostr' occhi'	95	(1)
`Giovane piano'	96	(1)
`How soon hath Time'	96	(1)
When the Assault was Intended to the City	97	(1)
`Lady, that in the prime'	97	(1)
To the Lady Margaret Ley	98	(1)
On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises	99	(1)
On the Same	100	(1)
To Mr H. Lawes, on his Airs	100	(1)
On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catharine Thomason	101	(1)
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	102	(1)
To the Lord General Cromwell	103	(1)
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger	104	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	105	(1)
`When I consider how my light is spent'	106	(1)
`Lawrence, of virtuous father'	106	(1)
`Cyriack, whose grandsire'	107	(1)
`Cyriack, this three years' day'	108	(1)
`Methought I saw my late espoused saint'	108	(399)
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	109	(2)
TRANSLATIONS
The Fifth Ode of Horace	111	(1)
Ad Pyrrham	111	(2)
Psalms
A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV	113	(1)
Psalm CXXXVI	113	(3)
Psalm CXIV (Greek)	116	(1)
Psalms LXXX-LXXXVIII	117	(13)
Psalms I-VIII	130	(8)
Translations from the Prose Writings
`Ah, Constantine, of how much ill'	138	(1)
`Founded in chaste and humble poverty'	138	(1)
`Then passed he to a flowery mountain green'	138	(1)
`When I die'	138	(1)
`Laughing to teach the truth'	139	(1)
`Jesting decides great things'	139	(1)
`'Tis you that say it, not I'	139	(1)
`This is true liberty, when freeborn men'	139	(1)
`Whom do we count a good man'	139	(1)
`There can be slain'	140	(1)
`Goddess of shades, and huntress'	140	(1)
`Brutus, far to the west'	140	(1)
`Low in a mead of kine'	141	(3)
PARADISE LOST
Commendatory Poems
In Paradisum Amissam	144	(3)
On Paradise Lost	147	(1)
The Printer to the Reader (and `The Verse')	148	(1)
Book I	149	(24)
Book II	173	(28)
Book III	201	(21)
Book IV	222	(28)
Book V	250	(24)
Book VI	274	(24)
Book VII	298	(18)
Book VIII	316	(18)
Book IX	334	(32)
Book X	366	(31)
Book XI	397	(26)
Book XII	423	(21)
PARADISE REGAINED
Book I	444	(14)
Book II	458	(14)
Book III	472	(14)
Book IV	486	(21)
SAMSON AGONISTES	507	(49)
OF EDUCATION	556	(19)
Appendix: extract from `The Life of Mr John Milton'	570	(5)
Edward Phillips
AREOPAGITICA	575
Appendix: The Licensing Order of 14 June 1643	619