Milton : The Complete Shorter Poems,9781405832793

Milton : The Complete Shorter Poems

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781405832793
ISBN10: 1405832797
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-21
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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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