Selected Poems (Milton, John)

An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a master of almost every type of verse from the classical to the religious, from the lyric to the epic. His writing reflected his radical views and his profound understanding of politics and power. This collection includes such early works as the devotional On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus, and the pastoral elegy Lycidas.

John Milton (1608-û1674) is the author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which he wrote later in life while completely blind.
John Leonard, a professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, edited Milton-'s Complete Poems for Penguin Classics.

from Poems 1645	p. 3
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	p. 3
On Time	p. 12
At a Solemn Music	p. 12
Song, On May Morning	p. 13
On Shakespeare, 1630	p. 14
On the University Carrier	p. 14
L'Allegro	p. 15
Il Penseroso	p. 19
Sonnet I ('O nightingale')	p. 24
Sonnet VII ('How soon hath Time')	p. 24
Sonnet VIII When the Assault was Intended to the City	p. 25
Sonnet IX ('Lady that in the prime')	p. 25
Sonnet X ('Daughter to that good Earl')	p. 26
Lycidas	p. 26
A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']	p. 32
from English Poems Added in 1673	p. 62
Sonnet XI On the Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises	p. 62
Sonnet XII On the Same	p. 63
Sonnet XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Airs	p. 63
Sonnet XIV On the religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason	p. 64
Sonnet XV On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	p. 64
Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent')	p. 65
Sonnet XVII ('Lawrence of virtuous father')	p. 65
Sonnet XVIII ('Cyriack, whose grandsire')	p. 66
Sonnet XIX ('Methought I saw my late espoused saint')	p. 66
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	p. 67
Uncollected English Sonnets	p. 68
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	p. 68
To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652	p. 69
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger	p. 69
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness	p. 70
from Paradise Lost: Book I	p. 72
from Paradise Lost: Book II	p. 93
from Paradise Lost: Book IV	p. 121
from Paradise Lost: Book IX	p. 148
from Paradise Regained	p. 181
from The First Book	p. 181
from The Second Book	p. 188
from The Third Book	p. 193
The Fourth Book	p. 197
Samson Agonistes	p. 214
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Selected Poems (Milton, John)

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