Poems of John Milton
By: selected and with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
Contributors: Tomalin, Claire
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781846140334
Subjects: Early modern; English poetry
Description: This is a collection of poems from John Milton. Milton worked in a range of styles, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Schoolboy --; title: Some verses from Milton's metrical version of Psalm CXXXVI --; title: The University Wit --; title: Lines from At a Vacation Exercise in the College --; title: Song. On May Morning --; title: Lines from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity --; title: On Shakespeare. 1630 --; title: On the University Carrier --; title: L'Allegro and Il Penseroso --; title: Lines from An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester --; title: The Professional Poet --; title: Lines from A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle --; title: On Time --; title: At a Solemn Music --; title: Lines from Lycidas --; title: The Sonnets --; title: 'O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray' --; title: 'How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth' --; title: When the Assault was Intended to the City --; title: 'A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon' --; title: On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester --; title: To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 --; title: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger --; title: 'When I consider how my light is spent' --; title: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont --; title: 'Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son' --; title: To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness --; title: 'Methought I saw my late espoused saint' --; title: The Last Years --; title: Lines from Paradise Lost --; title: Lines from Samson Agonistes: Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is called Tragedy.