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The poetical works of John Milton / John Milton ; reprinted from the best editions, with biographical notice, etc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3550 .E85
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, iii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6-562 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Milton's poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : John W. Lovell Company, 150 Worth Street, corner Mission Place, [1885?]
- Contents:
- Sketch of the life of John Milton
- Paradise lost
- Paradise regained
- Samson Agonistes
- Poems on several occasions, I-XV
- Comus
- Poems on several occasions, XVII-XIX
- Sonnets
- Psalms
- Latin poems. Poemata ; Elegiarum liber ; Epigrammatum liber ; Sylvarum liber.
- Notes:
- Plates: portrait of young Milton by E. Ronjat (frontispiece); Adam sees Eve (caption: "Till I espied thee, fair indeed and tall ..."); Adam and Eve naming the animals; Samson Agonistes (caption: "But who is this? what thing of sea or land? ..."); L'Allegro (caption: "While the ploughman near at hand ...").
- Title and text within red-ruled border.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- OCLC:
- 135003353
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