Milton : The Complete Shorter Poems

John Carey's edition hasalready established itself as the pre-eminent edition of Milton's poetry, both for the student and the general reader. Best available scholarly edition of Milton's poems Striking new cover design will make the paperback edition stand out on the shelf

John Carey is emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the Universityof Oxford, and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading Miltonists. He has written extensively on Milton's life and poetry and translated his treatise 'On Christian Doctrine' for the Yale Complete Prose Works of John Milton

Note by the General Editors

ix

Preface to the Second Edition

xi

Preface to the First Edition

xiii

Abbreviations

xvii

Selected Journal Abbreviations

xix

Chronological Table of Milton's Life and Chief Publications

xxi

THE MINOR POEMS AND SAMSON AGONISTES

Textual Introduction

3

(3)

A Paraphrase on Psalm cxiv

6

(1)

Psalm cxxxvi

7

(3)

Carmina Elegiaca [Elegiac Verses]

10

(2)

Ignavus satrapam . . . [Kings should not oversleep]

12

(1)

Philosophus ad regem . . . haec subito misit [A philosopher on his way to execution . . . ]

12

(1)

Apologus De Rustico et Hero [The Fable of the Peasant and the Landlord]

13

(1)

On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough

14

(5)

Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum [Elegy I. To Charles Diodati]

19

(6)

Elegia secunda. In Obitum Praeconis Academici Cantabrigiensis [Elegy II. On the Death of the University of Cambridge Beadle]

25

(2)

In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis [On the Death of the Bishop of Ely]

27

(3)

In Obitum Procancellarii Medici [On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Doctor]

30

(4)

In Proditionem Bombardicam [On the Gunpowder Plot]

34

(1)

In Eandem [On the Same]

35

(1)

In Eandem [On the Same]

35

(1)

In Eandem [On the Same]

36

(1)

In Inventorem Bombardae [On the Inventor of Gunpowder]

37

(1)

In Quintum Novembris [On the Fifth of November]

37

(13)

Elegia tertia. In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis [Elegy III. On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester]

50

(5)

Elegia quarta. Ad Thomam Junium . . . [Elegy IV. To Thomas Young . . . ]

55

(8)

Naturam non pati senium [That Nature does not suffer from old age]

63

(5)

De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit [Of the Platonic Ideal Form as understood by Aristotle]

68

(4)

Elegia septima [Elegy VII]

72

(6)

At a Vacation Exercise in the College

78

(5)

Elegia quinta. In adventum veris [Elegy. V. On the Coming of Spring]

83

(8)

Sonnet I

91

(2)

Song. On May Morning

93

(1)

Sonnet II

94

(1)

Sonnet III

95

(1)

Canzone

96

(1)

Sonnet IV

97

(1)

Sonnet V

98

(1)

Sonnet VI

98

(1)

The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I

99

(2)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

101

(15)

Elegia sexta [Elegy VI]

116

(6)

The Passion

122

(4)

On Shakespeare

126

(1)

On the University Carrier

127

(2)

Another on the Same

129

(1)

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

130

(4)

L'Allegro

134

(10)

Il Penseroso

144

(8)

Sonnet VII

152

(1)

Ad Pattern [To My Father]

153

(8)

Note on Ariosto

161

(1)

Arcades

161

(6)

At a Solemn Music

167

(3)

On Time

170

(2)

Upon the Circumcision

172

(1)

A Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 [Comus]

173

(61)

Psalm cxiv

234

(2)

Haec ego mente . . . [A postscript to his love poems]

236

(1)

Lycidas

237

(20)

Fix here

257

(1)

Ad Leonoram Romae canentem [To Leonora singing at Rome]

257

(1)

Ad eandem [To the same]

258

(1)

Ad eandem [To the same]

259

(1)

Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum . . . [To Salzilli, a Roman poet . . . ]

260

(2)

Mansus [Manso]

262

(8)

Epitaphium Damonis [Damon's Epitaph]

270

(16)

Translations from `Of Reformation'

286

(1)

Translation from `Reason of Church-Government'

287

(1)

Translations from `Apology for Smectymnuus'

287

(1)

Sonnet VIII. When the assault was intended to the City

288

(1)

Sonnet X. To the Lady Margaret Ley

289

(2)

Sonnet IX

291

(1)

Translation from title-page of `Areopagitica'

292

(1)

Translation from `Tetrachordon'

292

(1)

In Effigiei eius Sculptor [On the Engraver of his Portrait]

293

(1)

Sonnet XIII. To Mr H. Lawes

294

(2)

Sonnet XII. On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises

296

(2)

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament

298

(2)

Sonnet XIV

300

(2)

Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium [To John Rouse, Librarian of Oxford University]

302

(5)

Sonnet XI

307

(2)

Psalms lxxx-lxxxviii

309

(14)

On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester

323

(2)

Translation from `Tenure of Kings and Magistrates'

325

(1)

Translations from `The History of Britain'

325

(2)

Epigram from Defensio pro Populo Anglicano

327

(1)

To the Lord General Cromwell

328

(1)

To Sir Henry Vane the Younger

329

(2)

Sonnet XVI

331

(2)

Psalms i-viii

333

(7)

Verses from Defensio Secunda

340

(1)

Sonnet XV. On the late Massacre in Piedmont

341

(2)

Sonnet XVII

343

(2)

Sonnet XVIII

345

(1)

To Mr Cyriack Skinner Upon his Blindness

346

(1)

Sonnet XIX

347

(2)

From title-page of the second edition of `The Ready and Easy Way'

349

(1)

Samson Agonistes

349

(75)

PARADISE REGAINED

Introduction

417

(7)

The Poem

424

(89)

Bibliography of References Cited

513

(5)

Index of Titles and First Lines

518

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