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Title: Minor Poems by Milton

Author: John Milton

Editor: Samuel Thurber

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31706]

Language: English

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The Academy Series of English Classics

_MILTON_
MINOR POEMS

L'Allegro Il Penseroso Comus
Arcades On the Nativity Lycidas
On Shakespeare At a Solemn Music Sonnets

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
SAMUEL THURBER

ALLYN AND BACON
_Boston and Chicago_

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY SAMUEL THURBER.

_Norwood Press_
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

Preface
Outlines of the Life of Milton
TEXT:
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
On Shakespeare
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Arcades
At a Solemn Music
Comus
Lycidas
Sonnets:
I. To the Nightingale
II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three 68
VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City 69
IX. To a Virtuous Young Lady 70
X. To the Lady Margaret Ley 70
XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs 71
XV. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester 72
XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652 72
XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 73
XVIII. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont