Complete Poems and Major Prose, Volume 1957

John Milton

Odyssey Press, 1957 - English literature - 1059 pages

TEXTBOOK CONTAINING THE COMPLETE POEMS AND MAJOR PROSE OF JOHN MILTON.

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User Review  - jsburbidge - LibraryThing

This is pretty well the standard edition of Milton, with a critically established text, a reasonable level of apparatus for non-expert readers, and a critical mass of Milton's work extending beyond his major works to everything that anyone who is not a specialist is likely to need.

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User Review  - selfcallednowhere - LibraryThing

Ok, so I didn't read this whole thing, obviously. But I did read "Paradise Lost" and that's the important thing, right? And I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected to. The language ...

Contents

• Poems: 2
• Donna leggiadra Beautiful Lady: 53
• Elegia Septima Elegy VII: 58

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 evertything 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, Volume 1957; Complete Poems and Major Prose, Merritt Yerkes Hughes
• Author: John Milton
• Editor: Merritt Yerkes Hughes
• Contributor: Merritt Yerkes Hughes
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Odyssey Press, 1957
• ISBN: 0672631784, 9780672631788
• Length: 1059 pages