John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries
* Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison
* Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton
* Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations
* Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and Sampson Agonistes
* Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections

Universally hailed as one of the greatest poets of the English language, John Milton bequeathed an unrivalled body of work to the modern world. While best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton's literary brilliance encompassed all manner of verse forms, including the ode, mask, short epic and classical drama. This critical edition of Complete Shorter Poems is the first to present his poems in their original form, with all the intricacies of Milton's language intact. Original spelling and punctuation have been carefully maintained, and the poems' rhythms and cadences, often lost in modernized versions, are made accessible. Readers finally have the opportunity to experience the richness and vitality of Milton's works just as they were received by his contemporaries. Included are Milton's complete collection of 1645 Poems, with the English poems reproduced in the order in which Milton arranged them in 1645, followed by his Latin poems with new English translations easily accessible on facing pages. Also featured are Milton's two great works that appeared together in 1671, Paradise Regained; and the poetic drama modelled on classical Greek tragedy, Samson Agonistes. The addition of invaluable, non-intrusive footnotes, marginal glosses, and insightful introductions by noted Milton scholar Stella Revard will serve to illuminate the wealth of Milton's literary allusions and greatly enhance the reader's appreciation of his genius. Together, this new volume is a crucial addition to Milton scholarship and a fitting tribute to mark the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of the great poets birth in 1608.

Contents.Note on This Edition.Acknowledgments.List of Illustrations.Chronology.Textual Introduction.Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of Mr. John Milton.English and Italian Poems.The Stationer to the Reader.On the morning of CHRISTS Nativity.A Paraphrase on Psalm 114.Psalm 136.The Passion.On Time.Upon the Circumcision.At a solemn Musick.An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.On May morning.On Shakespear.On the University Carrier.Another on the same.LAllegro.Il Penseroso.SONNETS.I O Nightingale.II Donna leggiadra.III Qual in colle aspro.Canzone.IV Diodati, e tel dirò.V Per certo i bei vostrocchi.VI Giovane piano.VII How soon hath Time.VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms.IX Lady that in the prime of earliest youth.X Daughter to that good Earl.Arcades.Lycidas.A Mask of the same Author. Title page.To the Right Honourable, John Lord Vicount BRACLY.The Copy of a Letter Writtn By Sir HENRY WOOTTON. The Persons.A MASK Presented At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634.Introduction to the Poemata, 1645.The Poemata, 1645.Translators Note: The Latin Poems.Testimonia.Haec quae sequuntur de Authore testimonia.Joannes Baptista Mansus ad Joannem Miltonium.Ad Joannem Miltonem Epigramma Joannis Salsilli.Ad Joannem Miltonum (Selvaggi).Al Signor Gio. Miltoni (Antonio Francini).JOANNI MILTONI LONDINIENSI (Carolus Datus).ELEGIARUM Liber primus.Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum.Elegia secunda. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis.Elegia tertia. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.Elegia quarta. Ad Thomam Junium.Elegia quinta. In adventum veris.Elegia sexta. Ad Carolum Diodatum.Elegia septima.Haec ego mente [Retraction].In proditionem Bombardicam.In eandem.In eandem.In eandem.In inventorem Bombardæ.Ad Leonoram Romæ cantentem.Ad eandem.Ad eandem.Sylvarum Liber.In obitum Procancellarii medici.In quintum Novembris.In obitum Præsulis Eliensis.Naturam non pati senium.De Idea Platonica.Ad Patrem.Psalm 114.Philosophus ad regem.Ad Salsillum.Mansus.EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS.Introduction to Poems, d Tetrachordon.XII On the same.XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.XIV [On ye religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason].XV (18) On the late Massacher in Piemont.XVI (19) When I consider how my light is spent.XVII (20) Lawrence of virtuous Father.XVIII (21) Cyriack, whose Grandsire.XIX (23) Methought I saw.The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.Ad PYRRHAM. Ode V.At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge.On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT.Psalms.I.II.III.IV.V.VI.VII.VIII.LXXX.LXXXI.LXXXII.LXXXIII.LXXXIV.LXXXV.LXXXVI.LXXXVII.LXXXVIII.Latin and Greek Poems added in 1673.Poem added to Elegiarum Liber in 1673.Apologus de Rustico & Hero.Poems added to Sylvarum Liber in 1673.In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem.Ad Joannem Rousium.Introduction to the Uncollected Poems.Sonnets Published in 1694.To my Lord FAIRFAX.To Oliver Cromwell.To Sir HENRY VANE.To Mr. CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness.Unpublished Latin Poems.Carmina Elegaica.Verses in Lesser Asclepiads (Ignauus Satrapam).Introduction to Poems Published in 1671.Introduction to Paradise Regained.PARADISE REGAINED.Book I.Book 2.Book 3.Book 4.Introduction to Samson Agonistes.SAMSON AGONISTES.Appendix.Bridgewater Maske.Manuscript of Songs by Henry Lawes.Trinity Manuscript: A Page from A Mask.Select Bibliography.Textual Notes.Textual Notes to English and Italian Poems.Textual Notes to Poemata, 1645.Textual Notes to English Poems Added in 1673.Textual Notes to Sonnets Published in 1694.Textual Notes to Paradise Regained.Textual Notes to Samson Agonistes