Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton

Hackett Publishing, Jan 1, 2003 - Poetry - 1059 pages

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

Contents

• 34: 2
• On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough: 35
• On May Morning: 41
• Elegia Sexta Elegy: 50
• Canzone: 54
• The Passion: 61
• LAllegro: 67
• How Soon Hath Time: 76
• Ad Patrem To His Father: 89
• Psalm CXIV: 114
• Ad Salsillum Poetam Romanum Aegrotantem To Salzilli: 125
• Ad Eandem To the Same: 131
• Translations from Of Reformation Touching Church Disci: 139
• On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catharine Thomason My Christian Friend Deceased 16 December: 145
• Ad Ioannem Rousium To John Rouse Oxoniensis Aca demiae Bibliothecarium Librarian of Oxford University: 146
• Psalm LXXX: 149
• Psalm LXXXI: 151
• Psalm LXXXII: 152
• Psalm LXXXIII: 153
• Psalm LXXXIV: 154
• Psalm LXXXV: 155
• Psalm LXXXVI: 156
• Psalm LXXXVII: 157
• Psalm LXXXVIII: 158
• On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester: 159
• In Sal masii Hundredam Against the Hundred of Salmasius: 160
• To Sir Henry Vane the Younger: 161
• Psalm I: 162
• Psalm III: 163
• Psalm V: 164
• Psalm VI: 165
• Psalm VIII: 167
• When I Consider: 168
• Cyriack Whose Grandsire: 169
• To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness: 170
• PARADISE LOST Introduction: 173
• Book I: 211
• Book II: 232
• Book III: 257
• Book IV: 277
• Book V: 302
• Book VI: 323
• Book VII: 345
• Book VIII: 362
• Book IX: 378
• Book X: 406
• Book XI: 432
• Book XII: 454
• SAMSON AGONISTES: 531
• Prose: 595
• OF EDUCATION: 630
• THE REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT URGED AGAINST: 640
• AN APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS SELECTIONS: 690
• THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE SELECTIONS: 696
• AREOPAGITICA: 716
• THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES: 750
• EIKONOKLASTES SELECTIONS: 781
• THE SECOND DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND: 817
• A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES: 839
• CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO: 856
• THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMON: 880
• THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE SELECTIONS: 900
• Appendix: 1021
• INDEX OF NAMES: 1045

About the author

John Milton, English scholar and classical poet, is one of the major figures of Western literature. He was born in 1608 into a prosperous London family. By the age of 17, he was proficient in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Milton attended Cambridge University, earning a B.A. and an M.A. before secluding himself for five years to read, write and study on his own. It is believed that Milton read everything that had been published in Latin, Greek, and English. He was considered one of the most educated men of his time. Milton also had a reputation as a radical. After his own wife left him early in their marriage, Milton published an unpopular treatise supporting divorce in the case of incompatibility. Milton was also a vocal supporter of Oliver Cromwell and worked for him. Milton's first work, Lycidas, an elegy on the death of a classmate, was published in 1632, and he had numerous works published in the ensuing years, including Pastoral and Areopagitica. His Christian epic poem, Paradise Lost, which traced humanity's fall from divine grace, appeared in 1667, assuring his place as one of the finest non-dramatic poet of the Renaissance Age. Milton went blind at the age of 43 from the incredible strain he placed on his eyes. Amazingly, Paradise Lost and his other major works, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, were composed after the lost of his sight. These major works were painstakingly and slowly dictated to secretaries. John Milton died in 1674.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Complete Poems and Major Prose; Hackett Classics Series
• Author: John Milton
• Editor: Merritt Yerkes Hughes
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing, 2003
• ISBN: 0872206785, 9780872206786
• Length: 1059 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General