Milton: The Shorter Poems

by John Milton

Credits: John Milton (author)

Summary

The shorter poems of Milton, from the twin pictures of mirth and melancholy in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso to the masque Comus, the elegy Lycidas and the sonnets 'On His Blindness' and 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont'. The Nativity ode is not in this text, because the editor's notes repeat its title.

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Chapters (22)

  1. 1. On Shakespeare. 1630
  2. 2. L'Allegro
  3. 3. Il Penseroso
  4. 4. Arcades
  5. 5. At a Solemn Music
  6. 6. Comus
  7. 7. Lycidas
  8. 8. To the Nightingale
  9. 9. On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
  10. 10. When the Assault Was Intended to the City
  11. 11. To a Virtuous Young Lady
  12. 12. To the Lady Margaret Ley
  13. 13. To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs
  14. 14. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester
  15. 15. To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652
  16. 16. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
  17. 17. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  18. 18. On His Blindness
  19. 19. To Mr. Lawrence
  20. 20. To Cyriack Skinner
  21. 21. To the Same
  22. 22. On His Deceased Wife

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