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Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its continuing impact. He is one of the great voices of English poetry. Born in 1608, he is best known for his epic Paradise Lost, but most of his writing life was spent composing shorter works. This collection brings together his brilliant early poems, including Il Penseroso, L’Allegro and Lycidas, as well as some of the finest and most touching works of his maturity, such as On His Blindness and Methought I saw my late espoused saint. This anthology will serve as an introduction, or as a reminder of the range and variety of John Milton’s great gifts.
John Milton: The Great Poets
At a Vacation Exercise
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
cont. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour…
At a Solemn Musick
To Mr. H Lawes, on his Aires
On Time
On Shakespeare
On the morning of Christ’s Nativity
cont. Yea Truth, and Justice then…
Sonnet: To the Lord General Cromwell
Sonnet: On the detraction which followed…
Sonnet: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Lycidas
cont. It was that fatal and perfidious bark…
Sonnet: To the Nightingale
Sonnet: On my 23rd Birthday
from Paradise Lost – opening of Book I
from Paradise Lost – Book I – The fall of Mulciber
At a Vacation Exercise