Book description
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY
ON TIME
AT A SOLEMN MUSIC
L’ALLEGRO
IL PENSEROSO
ARCADES
COMUS
LYCIDAS
SONNETS
I. To the Nightingale
II. On His being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Four
III. When the Assault was Intended to the City
IV. To a Virtuous Young Lady
V. To the Lady Margaret Ley
VI. On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing certain Treatises
VII. On the Same
VIII. To Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs
IX. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomason, my Christian Friend, Deceased December, 1646
X. On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
XI. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester
XII. To the Lord General Cromwell, on the Proposals of certain Ministers at the Committee for Propagation of the Gospel
XIII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
XIV. On the late Massacre in Piemont
XV. On His Blindness
XVI. To Edward Lawrence
XVII. To Cyriack Skinner
XVIII. To the Same
XIX. On his deceased Wife
COMMENTARY
APPENDIX I. Renaissance Platonism and Cosmology
APPENDIX II. The Chronology of Milton’s Life