Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems [Paperback]

This volume contains the principal English poems of Milton's youth and early manhood, most of the sonnets written during the Puritan Revolution, when he was chiefly engaged in arguing public questions in prose, and Samson Agonistes, published three years before his death. Includes Comus, Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, and other shorter poems. With an introduction by Editor A. E. Baker, this edition also contains a list of principal dates in the life of Milton and a selected bibliography.

Introduction vii

Principal Dates in Miltons Life xi

On the Morning of Christs Nativity 1

On the Shakespear 9

LAllegro 10

Il Penseroso 15

Song: On May Morning 20

At a Solemn Musick 20

Lycidas 21

Sonnets 28

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray 28

How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth 28

On the Detraction which Followd upon my Writing Certain Treatises 29

On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 29

To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652 30

To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 31

On the Late Massacher in Piemont 31

When I consider how my light is spent 32

Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son 32

To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness 33

Methought I saw my late espoused Saint 33

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 34

Comus, A Mask 35

Samson Agonistes 65

Selected Bibliography 113

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