Poems / by John Milton ; with an introduction by Walter Raleigh Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674, author.

Contributor:

Raleigh, Walter, 1861-1922, writer of introduction.

Curran, Stuart A., honoree.

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, donor.

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

Series:

Red Letter Library.

Red letter library

Standardized Title:

Poetical works. Selections. English. 1905

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiii, [1], 231, [1] pages : portrait ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Milton

Place of Publication:

London Blackie and Son, Ld., [1905]

Contents:

Introduction / Walter Raleigh

A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV

Psalm CXXXVI

On the Death of a Fair Infant

Anno Ætatis XIX

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Upon the Circumcision

The Passion

On Time

At a Solemn Musick

Song on May Morning

Epitaph on Shakespeare

On the University Carrier

Another on the Same

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

L'Allegro

Il Penseroso

Arcades

Comus

Lycidas

Sonnet I. To the Nightingale

Sonnet II

Sonnet III

Canzone

Sonnet IV

Sonnet V

Sonnet VI

Sonnet VII. On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three

Sonnet VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City

Sonnet IX. To a virtuous young Lady

Sonnet X. To the Lady Margaret Ley

Sonnet XI. On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises

Sonnet XII. On the Same

Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on the publishing his Airs

Sonnet XIV. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson

On the New Forcers of Conscience

Sonnet XV. To the Lord General Fairfax

Sonnet XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell

Sonnet XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger

Sonnet XVIII. On the late Massacre in Piemont

Sonnet XIX. On his Blindness

Sonnet XX. To Mr. Lawrence

Sonnet XXI. to Cyriack Skinner

Sonnet XXII. To the Same

Sonnet XXIII. On his deceased Wife

Translations. From Dante; From Dante; From Ariosto; From Horace; From Horace; From Sophocles; From Euripides; From Horace; From Seneca; From Geoffrey of Monmouth; The Fifth Ode of Horace,Lib. I; Psalm LXXX; Psalm LXXXI; Psalm LXXXII; Psalm LXXXIII; Psalm LXXXIV; Psalm LXXXV; Psalm LXXXVI; Psalm LXXXVII; Psalm LXXXVIII; Psalm I; Psalm II; Psalm III; Psalm IV; Psalm V; Psalm VI; Psalm VII; Psalm VIII

Notes:

Double page engraved title page printed on glossy paper has design of entwined stems and scattered roses surrounding the title frame and portrait of young Milton. Similar design of entwined stems and scattered roses is featured on endpapers.

Soft red leather covers with gilt design of two facing songbirds on front cover; spine has author's name stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt stained.

Local Notes:

PR3552.R3 1905: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2016 has autograph of Ralph T. Robinson ...? on front free endpaper. Copy has ms. annotation and uncut leaves.

OCLC:

1117565628

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