Complete Poems and Major Prose

by Milton, John; Hughes, Merritt Yerkes

• ISBN13: 9780872206786
• ISBN10: 0872206785
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

Table of Contents

A Chronology of the Main Events in Milton's Life	xiii
Abbreviations of Titles of Milton's Works	xv
Abbreviations of Titles of Literary and Critical Works Cited in the Notes	xvi
Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals Cited in the Notes	xviii
Poems
The Minor Poems
A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV	3	(1)
Psalm CXXXVI	4	(2)
Verses found with the Commonplace Book Carmina Elegiaca (Elegiac Verses)	6	(1)
Ignavus satrapam dedecet (Slothful sleep disgraces a ruler)	6	(1)
Apologus de Rustico et Hero (Fable of Peasant and Landlord)	6	(1)
Elegia Prima (Elegy I)	7	(3)
The Fifth Ode of Horace	10	(1)
In Obitum Procancellarii Medici (On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician)	11	(1)
Elegia Secunda (Elegy II)	12	(1)
In Proditionem Bombardicam (On the Gunpowder Plot)	13	(1)
In Eandem (On the Same)	13	(1)
In Eandem (On the Same)	14	(1)
In Eandem (On the Same)	14	(1)
In Inventorem Bombardae (On the Inventor of Gunpowder)	14	(1)
In Quintum Novembris (On the Fifth of November)	15	(6)
Elegia Tertia (Elegy III)	21	(3)
In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis (On the Death of the Bishop of Ely)	24	(1)
Elegia Quarta (Elegy IV)	25	(5)
At a Vacation Exercise in the College	30	(2)
Naturam Non Pati Senium (That Nature is Not Subject to Old Age)	32	(3)
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough	35	(2)
Elegia Quinta (Elegy V)	37	(4)
Song: On May Morning	41	(1)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	42	(8)
Elegia Sexta (Elegy VI)	50	(3)
Sonnet I: O Nightingale!	53	(1)
Sonnet II: Donna leggiadra! (Beautiful Lady)	53	(1)
Sonnet III: Qual in colle aspro (As on a Rugged Mountain)	54	(1)
Canzone	54	(1)
Sonnet IV: Diodati, e te'l diro (Diodati, and I Will Say It to You)	55	(1)
Sonnet V: Per certo i bei vostr' occhi (In Truth, Your Fair Eyes)	55	(1)
Sonnet VI: Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante (Young, Gentle, and Candid Lover)	56	(1)
De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles Intellexit (On the Platonic Idea as Understood by Aristotle)	56	(2)
Elegia Septima (Elegy VII)	58	(3)
The Passion	61	(2)
On Shakespeare	63	(1)
On the University Carrier	64	(1)
Another on the Same	64	(1)
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester	65	(3)
L'Allegro	68	(4)
II Penseroso	72	(4)
Sonnet VII: How Soon Hath Time . . .	76	(1)
Arcades	77	(3)
On Time	80	(1)
Upon the Circumcision	80	(1)
At a Solemn Music	81	(1)
Ad Patrem (To His Father)	82	(4)
A Mask (Comus)	86	(28)
Psalm CXIV	114	(1)
Philosophus ad Regem Quendam (A Philosopher to a Certain King)	115	(1)
Lycidas	116	(9)
Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, Aegrotantem (To Salzilli, a Roman Poet, When He Was Ill)	125	(2)
Mansus (Manso)	127	(3)
Ad Leonoram Romae Canentem (To Leonora Singing in Rome)	130	(1)
Ad Eandem (To the Same)	131	(1)
Ad Eandem (To the Same)	131	(1)
Epitaphium Damonis (Damon's Epitaph)	132	(7)
Translations from Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England	139	(1)
Translations from An Apology for Smectymnuus	140	(1)
Sonnet VIII: When the Assault Was Intended to the City	140	(1)
Sonnet IX: Lady That in the Prime . . .	141	(1)
Translation from Tetrachordon	141	(1)
Sonnet X: To the Lady Margaret Ley	141	(1)
In Effigiei Eius Sculptorem (On the Engraver of His Likeness)	142	(1)
Verses from The History of Britain	142	(1)
Sonnet XI: On the Detraction Which Followed upon My Writing Certain Treatises	143	(1)
Sonnet XII: On the Same	143	(1)
Sonnet XIII: To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs	144	(1)
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	144	(1)
Sonnet XIV: On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason, My Christian Friend, Deceased, 16 December, 1646	145	(1)
Ad Ioannem Rousium (To John Rouse), Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium (Librarian of Oxford University)	146	(3)
Psalm LXXX	149	(2)
Psalm LXXXI	151	(1)
Psalm LXXXII	152	(1)
Psalm LXXXIII	153	(1)
Psalm LXXXIV	154	(1)
Psalm LXXXV	155	(1)
Psalm LXXXVI	156	(1)
Psalm LXXXVII	157	(1)
Psalm LXXXVIII	158	(1)
Sonnet XV: On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	159	(1)
Latin Verses from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio: In Salmasii Hundredam (Against the Hundred of Salmasius)	160	(1)
Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell	160	(1)
Sonnet XVII: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger	161	(1)
Psalm I	162	(1)
Psalm II	162	(1)
Psalm III	163	(1)
Psalm IV	163	(1)
Psalm V	164	(1)
Psalm VI	165	(1)
Psalm VII	165	(2)
Psalm VIII	167	(1)
Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont	167	(1)
Sonnet XIX: When I Consider . . .	168	(1)
Sonnet XX: Lawrence of Virtuous Father . . .	168	(1)
Sonnet XXI: Cyriack, Whose Grandsire . . .	169	(1)
Sonnet XXII: To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness	170	(1)
Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw . . .	170	(3)
Paradise Lost
Introduction	173	(38)
Book I	211	(21)
Book II	232	(25)
Book III	257	(20)
Book IV	277	(25)
Book V	302	(21)
Book VI	323	(22)
Book VII	345	(17)
Book VIII	362	(16)
Book IX	378	(28)
Book X	406	(26)
Book XI	432	(22)
Book XII	454	(17)
Paradise Regained
Introduction	471	(12)
The First Book	483	(11)
The Second Book	494	(11)
The Third Book	505	(10)
The Fourth Book	515	(16)
Samson Agonistes
Introduction	531	(18)
Samson Agonistes	549	(46)
Prose
Some Early Oratorical Performances (Prolusions)	595	(35)
Of Education	630	(10)
The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty	640	(50)
An Apology for Smectymnuus (Selections)	690	(6)
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (Selections)	696	(20)
Areopagitica	716	(34)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates	750	(31)
Eikonoklastes (Selections)	781	(36)
The Second Defense of the People of England (Selections)	817	(22)
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes	839	(17)
Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church	856	(24)
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Common-Wealth	880	(20)
The Christian Doctrine (Selections)	900	(145)
Appendix
Some Early Lives of Milton
Collections for the Life of Milton	1021	(4)
John Aubrey
The Life of Milton	1025	(13)
Edward Phillips
An Anonymous Life of Milton	1038	(7)
Index of Names	1045