The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection in this new edition spans his entire career, from his earliest works to the magnificent epics of his later life. The devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', his first great poem, anticipates the prob
Selected Poems Milton Milton
โ Scribed by Leonard, John;Milton, John
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Series
- Penguin classics
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0141932171
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โฆ Synopsis
Chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- Note on the texts -- Selected Poems: Mariana -- Song: spirit haunts the year's last hours' -- Character -- Kraken -- Lady of Shalott -- Mariana in the south -- Enone -- Lotos-eaters -- Epic -- Morte d' Arthur -- Audley Court -- St Simeon Stylites -- Ulysses -- Locksley Hall -- Two voices -- Vision of sin -- Move eastward, happy earth, and leave -- Break break break -- Golden year -- Princess: tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean -- Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white -- Come down, o maid, from yonder mountain height -- Splendour falls on castle walls -- Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea -- In memoriam A H H -- To the queen -- Edwin Morris; or, the lake -- Eagle -- Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington -- To E L, on his travels in Greece -- Charge of the Light Brigade -- Maud; a monodrama -- Daisy -- To the Rev F D Maurice -- Will -- Merlin and Vivien: idyllys of the king -- In love, if love be love, if love be ours' from Guinevere: idylls of the king -- Many a time for hours' -- Tithonus -- Hendecasyllabics -- In the valley of Cauteretz -- On a mourner -- Northern farmer, new style -- Flower in the crannied wall -- Passing of Arthur: idylls of the king 'then rose the king and moved his host by night' -- To Alfred Tennyson my grandson -- Battle of Brunanburh -- To Dante -- Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets -- To Virgil -- Frater ave atque Vale -- To E Fitzgerald -- To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava -- To Ulysses -- Roses on the terrace -- June Bracken and Heather: to -- Crossing the bar -- Notes -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines.
โฆ Subjects
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
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