Shorter Poems of John Milton / edited by B. A. Wright Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Glasgow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Wright, B. A. (Bernard Arker), editor.

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

Series:

The scholar's library

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xliv, 209 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1938.

Contents:

Life and Introduction

Chronology of Milton's Life

The Text

Poems: Paraphrase on Psalm 113; Psalm 136; On the Death of a Fair Infant; At a Vacation Exercise; Song on May Morning; The Fifth Ode of Horace; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; The Passion; Upon the Circumcision; On Time; At a Solemn Music; On Shakespear; On the University Carrier; Another on the Same; An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Arcades; Comus; Lycidas; Sonnets I-XIX

Introduction and Notes to Poems

Appendix: Milton's Cosmology

Questions.

Notes:

Contains list of Scholar's Library publications on verso of half-title page.

"Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

PR3552.W67 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has dust jacket containing advertisements for Scholar's Library retained. Front free endpaper has label of "M. M. Sadler-Hall ... Abingdon" and stamp "Specimen Price 2/6". [2] pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Text has underlines, marginal marks, and ms. annotations.

OCLC:

228267