The Collected Works of John Milton E-Book

John Milton

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 2304

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Paradise Lost • The Poetical Works of • Areopagitica • Paradise Regained • Milton's Comus • Milton: Minor Poems • MiltonSir Walter Alexander Raleigh • L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas • Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by • THE PASSION. • ON TIME. • UPON THE CIRCUMCISION. • AT A SOLEMN MUSICK. • AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER. • SONG ON MAY MORNING. • ON SHAKESPEAR. • ANOTHER ON THE SAME. • L'ALLEGRO. • IL PENSEROSO. • SONNETS. • ARCADES. • LYCIDAS. • A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle,. &c. • POEMS ADDED IN THE EDITION. • ANNO AETATIS. ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH. • 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. • TO SR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER. • TO MR. CYRIACK SKINNER UPON HIS BLINDNESS. • PSAL. I. Done into Verse,. • PSAL. II Done Aug. Terzetti. • PSAL. III. Aug. • PSAL. IV. Aug. • PSAL. V. Aug. • PSAL. VI Aug. • PSAL. VII. Aug. • PSAL. VIII. Aug. • APRIL,. J. M. NINE OF THE PSALMS DONE INTO METRE, • • PARADISE REGAIN'D. • • SAMSON AGONISTES • MINOR POEMS • L’ALLEGRO IL PENSEROSO • COMUS • ARCADES • ON THE NATIVITY • LYCIDAS • ON SHAKESPEARE • AT A SOLEMN MUSIC • SONNETS •.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

PARADISE LOST

PARADISE LOST

BOOK I.

THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK II.

THE END OF THE SECOND BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK III

THE END OF THE THIRD BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK IV.

THE END OF THE FOURTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK V.

THE END OF THE FIFTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK VI.

THE END OF THE SIXTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST.

BOOK VII.

THE END OF THE SEVENTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK VIII.

THE END OF THE EIGHTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST

BOOK IX.

THE END OF THE NINTH BOOK.

PARADISE LOST.

BOOK X.

Paradise Lost

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Book V

Book VI

Book VII

Book VIII

Book IX

Book X

Book XI

Book XII

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON

Fifty engravings by Gustave Dore have been provided in "Paradise Lost"

PREFACE by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M. A.

THE STATIONER TO THE READER.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

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.

ANOTHER ON THE SAME.

L'ALLEGRO.

IL PENSEROSO.

SONNETS.

ARCADES.

LYCIDAS.

A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. &c.

POEMS ADDED IN THE 1673 EDITION.

ANNO AETATIS 17. ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH.

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.

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.

APRIL, 1648. J. M. NINE OF THE PSALMS DONE INTO METRE,

PSAL. LXXX.

PSAL. LXXXI.

PSAL. LXXXII.

PSAL. LXXXIV.

PSAL LXXXV.

PSAL. LXXXVI.

PSAL. LXXXVII

PSAL. LXXXVIII

COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE 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.]

PARADISE LOST.

ON Paradise Lost.

THE VERSE.

BOOK I.

BOOK II.

BOOK III.

BOOK IV.

BOOK V.

BOOK VI.

BOOK VII.

BOOK VIII.

BOOK IX.

BOOK X.

BOOK XI.

BOOK XII.

PARADISE REGAIN'D.

The First Book.

The Second Book.

The Third Book.

The Fourth Book.

SAMSON AGONISTES

Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy.

The Argument.

APPENDIX.

ON TIME

MILTON’S COMUS

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

COMUS.

COMUS.

NOTES.

PARADISE REGAINED

THE FIRST BOOK

THE SECOND BOOK

THE THIRD BOOK

THE FOURTH BOOK

AREOPAGITICA

A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND

MINOR POEMS

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

OUTLINES OF THE LIFE OF MILTON.

MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.

ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

The Hymn.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

ON SHAKESPEARE. 1630.

L’ALLEGRO.

IL PENSEROSO.

ARCADES.

I. Song.

II. Song.

III. Song.

AT A SOLEMN MUSIC.

COMUS.

THE PERSONS.

The Measure.

Song.

Song.

Song.

LYCIDAS.

SONNETS.

I.

TO THE NIGHTINGALE.

II.

ON HIS HAVING ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE.

VIII.

WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY.

IX.

TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.

X.

TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY.

XIII.

TO MR. H. LAWES ON HIS AIRS.

XV.

ON THE LORD GENERAL FAIRFAX, AT THE SIEGE OF COLCHESTER.

XVI.

TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY, 1652,

ON THE PROPOSALS OF CERTAIN MINISTERS AT THE COMMITTEE FOR PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.

XVII.

TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER.

XVIII.

ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.

XIX.

ON HIS BLINDNESS.

XX.

TO MR. LAWRENCE.

XXI.

TO CYRIACK SKINNER.

XXII.

TO THE SAME.

XXIII.

ON HIS DECEASED WIFE

NOTES.

ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY.

ON SHAKESPEARE.

L’ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO.

L’Allegro.

Il Penseroso.

ARCADES.

AT A SOLEMN MUSIC.

COMUS.

LYCIDAS.

SONNETS.

I.

II (1631).

VIII (1642).

IX (1644).

X (1644 or 1645).

XIII (1646).

XV (1648).

XVI.

XVII (1652).

XVIII (1655).

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII (1655).

XXIII.

POEMATA: LATIN, GREEK AND ITALIAN POEMS

CONTENTS

POEMATA

1. ELEGIES

ELEGY I

ELEGY II

ELEGY VI

2. POEMS IN VARIOUS METRES

3. TRANSLATIONS OF THE ITALIAN POEMS

I

II

V.

VI.1

I.

II.

V.

VI.

L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, COMUS, AND LYCIDAS

L'ALLEGRO

IL PENSEROSO

COMUS

A MASQUE PRESENTED AT LUDLOW CASTLE, 1634, BEFORE

THE EARL OF BRIDGEWATER, THEN PRESIDENT OF WALES.

SONG.

SONG.

LYCIDAS

PARADISE LOST

by John Milton

PARADISE LOST

BOOK I.

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill Delight thee more, and SILOA'S Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' AONIAN Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th' Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.

Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State, Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his Will For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt? Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in Glory above his Peers, He trusted to have equal'd the most High, If he oppos'd; and with ambitious aim Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms. Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: But his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: At once as far as Angels kenn he views The dismal Situation waste and wilde, A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd For those rebellious, here their Prison ordain'd In utter darkness, and their portion set As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n As from the Center thrice to th' utmost Pole. O how unlike the place from whence they fell! There the companions of his fall, o'rewhelm'd With Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, He soon discerns, and weltring by his side One next himself in power, and next in crime, Long after known in PALESTINE, and nam'd BEELZEBUB. To whom th' Arch-Enemy, And thence in Heav'n call'd Satan, with bold words Breaking the horrid silence thus began.

If thou beest he; But O how fall'n! how chang'd From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth'd with transcendent brightnes didst outshine Myriads though bright: If he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope, And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd In equal ruin: into what Pit thou seest From what highth fal'n, so much the stronger provd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms? yet not for those Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict do I repent or change, Though chang'd in outward lustre; that fixt mind And high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit, That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend, And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring, His utmost power with adverse power oppos'd In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That Glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deifie his power Who from the terrour of this Arm so late Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods And this Empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n.