The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton was a poet of many interests and he wrote on various topics, but he was the most famous for his poems on Christian themes. His poetic style was a highly influential poetic structure and his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

Contents:

Introduction

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regain'd

Samson Agonistes

Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which Is Call'd Tragedy

The Argument

The Scene Before the Prison in Gaza

On Time

Miscellaneous Poems:

On the Morning of Christs Nativity

The Passion

On Time

Upon the Circumcision

At a Solemn Musick

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

Song on May Morning

On Shakespear. 1630

On the University Carrier Who Sickn'd in the Time of His Vacancy, Being Forbid to Go to London, by Reason of the Plague

Another on the Same

L'allegro

Il Penseroso

Sonnets

Arcades

Lycidas

A Mask Presented at Ludlow-castle, 1634. &c.

On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough

At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge

The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.

Sonnets:

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament

On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester

To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652

To Sr Henry Vane the Younger

To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.

Psalms:

Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653

Psal. II Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.

Psal. III. Aug. 9. 1653

Psal. IV. Aug. 10.1653

Psal. V. Aug. 12.1653

Psal. VI Aug. 13. 1653

Psal. VII. Aug. 14. 1653

Psal. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653

Psal. LXX

Psal. LXXXI

Psal. LXXXII

Psal. LXXXIV

Psal LXXXV

Psal. LXXXVI

Psal. LXXXVII

Psal. LXXXVIII

Prose Writings:

From of Reformation in England, 1641

From Reason of Church Government, 1641

From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642

From Areopagitica, 1644

From Tetrachordon, 1645

From the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649

From History of Britain, 1670