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The John Milton Reading Room

Poems (1645)

Title Page (1645) and Front Matter
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
Psalm 136
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
On the University Carrier 
Another on the same
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Sonnets
Arcades
Lycidas
A Mask [Comus] (1645)

Poemata [Latin Poems]
Title page and Tributes from other poets
Elegiarum [Elegies]
Sylvarum Liber [Poems in Various Meters]
Epitaphium Damonis [Damon's Epitaph]

From Poems, &c. Upon Several Occasions (1673)

Title Page (1673)

[This second edition of Milton's collected Poems contained everything from Poems (1645), as well as the following additions and the prose treatise, Of Education]

On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
Sonnets
The Fifth Ode of Horace, Book 1
At A Vacation Exercise
On the New Forcers of Conscience
Psalm Translations
Apologus de Rustico & Hero [Fable of the Peasant and the Landlord]
In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem [On the Engraver of his Portrait]
Ad Joannem Roüsium [Ode to John Rouse]

Latin Poems from Milton's Commonplace Book

Paradise Lost (1674)

Paradise Regain'd (1671)

Samson Agonistes (1671)

Prose

Areopagitica
Colasterion
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Of Education
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes

(NB: The texts listed below have not yet been carefully checked against their original copytexts and are therefore not perfectly reliable)
The Reason of Church Government
Tetrachordon

Selected Criticism: 1987-2004

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