John Milton

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 Regaind, 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 Christ’s 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 Sick’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 College, 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