English Minor Poems: Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica -- Great Books Of The Western World, # 32
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. NF. Item #124831
Near Fine. Completely clean, tight and square.; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; Genre/Form: Poetry. Named Person:Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure); Samson, (Biblical judge); Adam, (Biblical figure); Eve, (Biblical figure); Samson, (Biblical judge)Notes: " ... reprinted from Milton's poetical works, edited by H.C. Beeching, by permission of Oxford University Press"--Title page verso. Description: vii, 412 pages. Contents: Miscellaneous poems. (On the morning of Christs nativity --The hymn) --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 [Shakespeare], 1630 --On the university carrier --Another on the same --L'Allegro --Il Penseroso --Arcades --Lycidas --Comus --Poems added in the 1673 edition (On the death of a fair infant --At a vacation exercise --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 General Cromwell, May 1652 --To Sr. Henry Vane the younger --To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness --Psalms. I-VIII --LXXX-LXXXVIII. 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) --Samson Agonistes --Areopagitica.
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