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.