John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

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John Wiley & Sons, 2009 M05 18 - 600 pages
An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries:
  • Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison
  • Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton
  • Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations
  • Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and Sampson Agonistes
  • Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections
 

Contents

The Stationer to the Reader
15
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
28
On Time
35
On May morning
43
Penseroso
53
SONNETS
59
A Mask of the Same Author Title page
82
A MASK Presented At LUDLOWCastle 1634
88
Psalm 114
248
Mansus
256
EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS
266
Introduction to Poems c UPON Several Occasions 1673
284
On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough
293
The Fifth Ode of Horace Lib I
308
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT
314
Poem added to Elegiarum Liber in 1673
340

Introduction to the Poemata 1645
121
The Latin Poems
127
Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum
144
Elegia secunda In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis
153
Elegia quarta Ad Thomam Junium
159
Elegia quinta In adventum veris
169
Elegia septima
178
Haec ego mente Retraction
193
In inventorem Bombardæ
198
In obitum Procancellarii medici
204
In obitum Præsulis Eliensis
224
Naturam non pati senium
230
De Idea Platonica
236
Introduction to the Uncollected Poems
354
To Oliver Cromwell
361
To Mr CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness
367
Introduction to Poems Published in 1671
373
Introduction to Samson Agonistes
451
Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is calld Tragedy
461
Bridgewater Maske
515
Manuscript of songs by Henry Lawes from A Mask
539
Textual Notes to English and Italian Poems 1645
557
Textual Notes to Poemata 1645
565
Textual Notes to Sonnets Published in 1694
572
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Stella P. Revard is Professor Emerita of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, with a PhD in English Literature from Yale University. Her two previous books on Milton, The War in Heaven: Paradise Lost and the Tradition of Satan’s Rebellion (1980) and Milton and the Tangles of Neaera’s Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems (1997), won Hanford awards from the Milton Society of America.

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