The poetical works of John Milton
By: reprinted from the original edition, and containing numerous explanatory notes, with memoir by David Masson ...
Series: The "Arundel poets"; "Arundel poets."
Publisher: Belford, Clark & co.
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
Subjects: English literature 17th c
Genres: poetry
First sentence: Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir  own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them [...]"  From Milton's own Edition, 1669.
Description: Milton's Poems on the spine; gilt edges; floral paper inside the covers; frontispiece and title page separated from binding; pencilling in books 1 and 2 of Paradise Lost; pages 33-44 (book 2) of Paradise Lost loosened in part.
Notes: [stamped inside the cover] Library of J. Harper Hutchman    Bought__Price__         
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Table of contents: title: Life of Milton [Memoir of Milton]
pagenum: ix; title: Paradise Lost
pagenum: 1; title: Paradise Regained
pagenum: 323; title: Samson Agonistes
pagenum: 389; title: Early Poems
pagenum: 445; title: Odes
pagenum: 452; title: Sonnets
pagenum: 525; title: Translations
pagenum: 541; title: Scraps from the Prose Writings
pagenum: 566; title: Latin Poems
pagenum: 570