John Milton Complete Shorter Poems

by John Milton

Book Overview

An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's contemporaries: Includes Milton's original Latin poems, with a new English translation on facing pages for cross-comparison Serves as a companion to Lewalski's Paradise Lost and Loewenstein's prose selections of Milton Features both collected and uncollected poetry in English, Latin, and Greek, the latter two with translations Retains original spelling and punctuation of Milton's 1645 Poems and his 1671 Paradise Regained and Sampson Agonistes Offers readers comprehensive footnotes, marginal glosses, chronology, bibliography, and longer discussions in introductions to sections

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405129271
• ISBN13: 9781405129275
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Day labor light denied

Milton is a poet of the deepest reflective seriousness, and of memorable moving lines of imposing length and beauty. The great dignity and depth of Milton's verse is sometimes obscured for the reader by the plethora of classical reference. The power and sense of struggle, the immense elegaic richness and Latinate elegance of this verse speaks down the ages. I have always found the shorter poems, including the not very short one of 'Lycidas' as the most personally moving(Samson Agonistes aside) . I cannot say I know or even have read the greatest share but there are some which are with me wherever I go. "They also serve who only stand and wait." " Does God exact day labor light denied?"