The English Poems of John Milton / from the edition of H.C. Beeching ; together with an introduction by Charles Williams and A reader's guide to Milton compiled by Walter Skeat, M.A., F.S.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Beeching, H. C. (Henry Charles), 1859-1919, editor.

Skeat, Walter William, 1866-1953.

Williams, Charles, 1886-1945, writer of introduction.

Curran, Stuart A., honoree (Milton Collection copies 1 & 2).

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, donor (Milton Collection copies 1 & 2).

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) ; 182.

The world's classics ; 182

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Queensland Book Depot (Brisbane, Australia) (label) (Milton Collection copy 1)

Coghlan, Helen (autograph) (Milton Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

xx, 543, [1] pages ; 15 cm.

Manufacture:

Bungay, Suffolk : Reprinted by Richard Clay and Company Ltd.,

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1951.

Contents:

Introduction / Charles Williams

Miscellaneous Poems

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

Samson Agonistes

A Reader's Guide to Milton / compiled by Walter Skeat, M.A.

Notes:

"This edition of the English Poems of John Milton was first published in The World's Classics in 1913 and reprinted in 1921, 1923, 1926, 1932 and 1936. In 1940 a new edition was published with an Introduction by Charles Williams and 'A Reader's Guide to Milton', compiled by Walter Skeat; reprinted in 1942, entirely reset in 1946, and reprinted in 1948 and 1951."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

PR3550.F21 19151: Milton Collecton copy 1: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran has bookseller's label ("QUEENSLAND BOOK DEPOT ... BRISBANE") on front pastedown; autograph ("Helen Coghlan Arts II") in blue ink on front free endpaper. Dust jacket (mutilated) retained; few ms. marginal marks in text. Milton Collection copy 2: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2022 has red cloth boards with red leatherette spine stamped and decorated in gold. Has white ribbon bookmark. Verso of front free endpaper has autograph of "Jennifer French?". Title page has "Geoffrey Cumberlege" printed above Oxford University Press.

Related Work:

Skeat, Walter William, 1866-1953. Reader's guide to Milton.

OCLC:

15999243