The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

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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

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