Milton: The Shorter Poems
By John Milton
Cover: The Lonely Tower (1879), etching by Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1881)
The shorter poems of Milton, from the twin pictures of mirth and melancholy in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso to the masque Comus, the elegy Lycidas and the sonnets 'On His Blindness' and 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont'. The Nativity ode is not in this text, because the editor's notes repeat its title.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: On Shakespeare. 1630
- 2: L'Allegro
- 3: Il Penseroso
- 4: Arcades
- 5: At a Solemn Music
- 6: Comus
- 7: Lycidas
- 8: To the Nightingale
- 9: On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
- 10: When the Assault Was Intended to the City
- 11: To a Virtuous Young Lady
- 12: To the Lady Margaret Ley
- 13: To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs
- 14: On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester
- 15: To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652
- 16: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
- 17: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
- 18: On His Blindness
- 19: To Mr. Lawrence
- 20: To Cyriack Skinner
- 21: To the Same
- 22: On His Deceased Wife