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John Milton

This selection of Milton's finest poetry includes passages from his most famous work, "Paradise Lost" - his biblical epic written, as he put it, after "long choosing, and beginning late".
Print Book, English, 1994
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994
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xxvi, 324 pages ; 20 cm.
9780192823045, 0192823043
29563874
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
On Time
At a Solemn Music
On Shakespeare 1630
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Sonnet 1 ('O nightingale')
Sonnet 7 ('How soon hath time')
Sonnet 8 ('Captain or colonel')
Sonnet 9 ('Lady, that in the prime')
Sonnet 10 ('Daughter to that good earl')
Lycidas
A Masque ... Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']
Sonnet 11 ('A book was writ of late')
Sonnet 12 On the Same ('I did but prompt the age')
Sonnet 13 To Mr H. Lawes ('Harry whose tuneful')
Sonnet 14 ('When faith and love')
Sonnet 15 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Sonnet 16 ('When I consider how my light is spent')
Sonnet 17 ('Lawrence of virtuous father')
Sonnet 18 ('Cyriack, whose grandsire')
Sonnet 19 ('Methought I saw my late espoused saint')
On the New Forcers of Conscience
On the Lord General Fairfax
To the Lord General Cromwell
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
To Mr Cyriack Skinner Upon his Blindness
From Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes