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 Regain'd
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 Christs 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 Sickn'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 Colledge
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
