John Milton

Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems

Herausgeber: Barker, A E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains the principal English poems of Milton's youth and early manhood, most of the sonnets written during the Puritan Revolution, when he was chiefly engaged in arguing public questions in prose, and Samson Agonistes, published three years before his death. Includes "Comus," "Lycidas," "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," and other shorter poems. With an introduction by Editor A. E. Baker, this edition also contains a list of principal dates in the life of Milton and a selected bibliography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 1950
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 122g
• ISBN-13: 9780882950587
• ISBN-10: 0882950584
• Artikelnr.: 22603058

Autorenporträt

John Milton was an English writer of poetry and prose during times of war, religious change and political upheaval in England. He is reknowned for his epic poem Paradise Lost. George H. Sabine - 1880-1961 - was a professor of philosophy, dean of the Graduate School and vice president of Cornell University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction vii
Principal Dates in Milton's Life xi
On the Morning of Christs Nativity 1
On the Shakespear 9
L'Allegro 10
Il Penseroso 15
Song: On May Morning 20
At a Solemn Musick 20
Lycidas 21
Sonnets 28
"O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray" 28
"How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth" 28
On the Detraction which Follow'd upon my Writing Certain Treatises 29
On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 29
To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652 30
To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 31
On the Late Massacher in Piemont 31
"When I consider how my light is spent" 32
"Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son" 32
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness 33
"Methought I saw my late espoused Saint" 33
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 34
Comus, A Mask 35
Samson Agonistes 65
Selected Bibliography 113