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This is the first volume to represent an original spelling edition of Milton's Complete Shorter Poems, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries. Presents a range of Milton's shorter verse in their original form, incorporating spelling and punctuation, rhythms and sound qualities which may be lost in other editions of Milton's poetry Key feature is the inclusion of the original Latin poems, accompanied by a brand new English translation, provided on facing-pages for cross-comparison Edited by prominent Milton scholar, Stella Revard In addition, the series editor is Barbara Lewalski, one of the world's leading Milton scholars. The book follows the successful Paradise Lost (original text) edition, which published in 2007 under the editorship of Barbara Lewalski

Stella Revard is professor Emerita of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She has a B.A. from Hunter College, New York; an M.A. in Classics from Washington University, St. Louis; and an M.A. and Ph. D. in English literature from Yale University, New Haven. She is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America, Past President of the Milton Society of America and the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published more than seventy articles on Renaissance and classical literature and other subjects. She has three books (listed above) and a fourth book forthcoming. Both her books on Milton and an article on musical versions of Paradise Lost won Hanford awards from the Milton Society of America. She continues active in Milton and Neo-Latin studies, participating in the symposia and congresses of both associations.

Note on This Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Chronology
Textual Introduction
Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of Mr. John Milton
English and Italian Poems
The Stationer to the Reader
On the morning of CHRISTS Nativity
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
Psalm 136
The Passion
On Time
Upon the Circumcision
At a solemn Musick
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
On May morning
On Shakespear
On the University Carrier
Another on the same
LÆAllegro
Il Penseroso
SONNETS
I O Nightingale
II Donna leggiadra
III Qual in colle aspro
Canzone
IV Diodati, e teÆl dirò
V Per certo i bei vostrÆocchi
VI Giovane piano
VII How soon hath Time
VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms
IX Lady that in the prime of earliest youth
X Daughter to that good Earl
Arcades
Lycidas
A Mask of the same Author. Title page
To the Right Honourable, John Lord Vicount BRACLY
The Copy of a Letter WrittÆn By Sir HENRY WOOTTON
The Persons
A MASK Presented At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634
Introduction to the Poemata, 1645
The Poemata, 1645
TranslatorÆs Note: The Latin Poems
Testimonia
Haec quae sequuntur de Authore testimonia
Joannes Baptista Mansus ad Joannem Miltonium
Ad Joannem Miltonem Epigramma Joannis Salsilli
Ad Joannem Miltonum (Selvaggi)
Al Signor Gio. Miltoni (Antonio Francini)
JOANNI MILTONI LONDINIENSI (Carolus Datus)
ELEGIARUM Liber primus
Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum
Elegia secunda. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis
Elegia tertia. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis
Elegia quarta. Ad Thomam Junium
Elegia quinta. In adventum veris
Elegia sexta. Ad Carolum Diodatum
Elegia septima
Haec ego mente [Retraction]
In proditionem Bombardicam
In eandem
In eandem
In eandem
In inventorem Bombardæ
Ad Leonoram Romæ cantentem
Ad eandem
Ad eandem
Sylvarum Liber
In obitum Procancellarii medici
In quintum Novembris
In obitum Præsulis Eliensis
Naturam non pati senium
De Idea Platonica
Ad Patrem
Psalm 114
Philosophus ad regem
Ad Salsillum
Mansus
EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS
Introduction to Poems, &C. UPON Several Occasions, 1673
English Poems Added in 1673
On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough
SONNETS
XI A Book was writ of late callÆd Tetrachordon
XII On the same
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires
XIV [On ye religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason]
XV (18) On the late Massacher in Piemont
XVI (19) When I consider how my light is spent
XVII (20) Lawrence of virtuous Father
XVIII (21) Cyriack, whose Grandsire
XIX (23) Methought I saw
The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I
Ad PYRRHAM. Ode V
At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT
Psalms
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
LXXX
LXXXI
LXXXII
LXXXIII
LXXXIV
LXXXV
LXXXVI
LXXXVII
LXXXVIII
Latin and Greek Poems added in 1673
Poem added to Elegiarum Liber in 1673
Apologus de Rustico & Hero
Poems added to Sylvarum Liber in 1673
In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem
Ad Joannem Rousium
Introduction to the Uncollected Poems
Sonnets Published in 1694
To my Lord FAIRFAX
To Oliver Cromwell
To Sir HENRY VANE
To Mr. CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness
Unpublished Latin Poems
Carmina Elegaica
Verses in Lesser Asclepiads (Ignauus Satrapam)
Introduction to Poems Published in 1671
Introduction to Paradise Regained
PARADISE REGAINED
Book I
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Introduction to Samson Agonistes
SAMSON AGONISTES
Appendix
Bridgewater Maske
Manuscript of Songs by Henry Lawes
Trinity Manuscript: A Page from A Mask
Select Bibliography
Textual Notes
Textual Notes to English and Italian Poems
Textual Notes to Poemata, 1645
Textual Notes to English Poems Added in 1673
Textual Notes to Sonnets Published in 1694
Textual Notes to Paradise Regained
Textual Notes to Samson Agonistes
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John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

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