A landmark anthology of works by the influential poet and author encompasses all of his major narrative poems, his shorter verses, his essays, and such influential treatises as Areopagitica, a criticism of censorship, enhanced by on-page explanatory notes and scholarly commentary. 20,000 first printing. List of Illustrations ix General Preface xi References and Abbreviations xvii A Chronology of Milton's Life xxi Minutes of the Life of Mr. John Milton xxiii John Aubrey A Chronology of Milton's Poetry xxxi ENGLISH POEMS Psalm 114 3(1) Psalm 136 4(2) On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough 6(5) At a Vacation Exercise 11(4) Song: On May Morning 15(1) The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I 16(2) On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 18(12) The Passion 30(4) On Shakespeare 34(1) On the University Carrier 35(1) Another on the Same 36(1) An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester 37(4) L'Allegro 41(5) II Penseroso 46(6) Arcades 52(5) At a Solemn Music 57(1) On Time 58(2) Upon the Circumcision 60(1) A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 [Comus] 61(38) Lycidas 99(11) Psalms 80--88 110(13) Psalms 1--8 123(9) Translations from the Prose Works 132(7) ENGLISH AND ITALIAN SONNETS Sonnets 1--23 139(24) On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament 163(6) LATIN AND GREEK POEMS Elegiac Verses ``Get up, go, get up, it's time now'' 169(1) Kings should not oversleep 170(1) The Fable of the Peasant and the Lord 170(1) A Philosopher to a King 171(1) Book of Elegies Elegy 1. To Charles Diodati 172(3) Elegy 2. On the Death of the Beadle of Cambridge University 175(2) Elegy 3. On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester 177(3) Elegy 4. To Thomas Young, his tutor, at present performing the office of chaplain among the English merchants living in Hamburg 180(5) Elegy 5. On the Arrival of Spring 185(5) Elegy 6. To Charles Diodati, staying in the country 190(4) Elegy 7 194(4) A postscript to his elegies 198(1) On the Gunpowder Plot 198(1) On the same 199(1) On the same 199(1) On the same 200(1) On the Inventor of Gunpowder 200(1) To Leonora singing in Rome 200(1) To the same 201(1) To the same 202(1) Book of Miscellaneous Poems On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician 203(2) On the Fifth of November 205(8) On the Death of the Bishop of Ely 213(2) That Nature does not suffer from old age 215(3) Of the Platonic Idea as understood by Aristotle 218(2) To His Father 220(5) Psalm 114 225(1) To Salzilli, the Roman poet, being ill. Scazons 226(1) Manso 227(5) Epitaph for Damon 232(10) On the Engraver of His Portrait 242(1) To John Rouse, Librarian of Oxford University 243(4) Epigram from A Defense of the English People 247(1) Epigrams from A Second Defense 248(3) LATE MASTERPIECES Introduction to Paradise Lost 251(32) Paradise Lost 283(348) Book I 293(30) Book II 323(36) Book III 359(25) Book IV 384(34) Book V 418(27) Book VI 445(31) Book VII 476(21) Book VIII 497(20) Book IX 517(35) Book X 552(33) Book XI 585(26) Book XII 611(20) Introduction to Paradise Regained 631(4) Paradise Regained 635(64) Book I 635(15) Book II 650(14) Book III 664(14) Book IV 678(21) Introduction to Samson Agonistes 699(8) Samson Agonistes 707(60) PROSE WORKS Familiar Letters Diodati Greets Milton Cheerfully 767(1) Diodati Greets Milton 767(1) To Alexander Gill 768(1) Letter to a Friend 769(3) To Charles Diodati 772(1) To the Same 773(2) Sir Henry Wotton to Milton 775(2) To Lukas Holste in the Vatican at Rome 777(2) To Leonard Philaras 779(2) To the Most Distinguished Mr. Henry de Brass 781(4) Prolusions Prolusion 1 785(8) Prolusion 7 793(12) Controversial Prose Selections from Of Reformation 805(30) A Selection from The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty, The Second Book 835(10) A Selection from An Apology for Smectymnuus 845(8) Selections from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 853(70) Areopagitica 923(44) Of Education 967(16) Selections from Tetrachordon 983(38) Selections from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 1021(36) Selections from Eikonoklastes 1057(12) Selections from Second Defense of the English People 1069(42) The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth 1111(26) Selections from Christian Doctrine 1137(198) Works Cited 1335(14) Index 1349