Author:John Milton

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John Milton (1608–1674)

An English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

John Milton

Works

• Areopagitica (1644)
• Comus
• Il Penseroso
• L'Allegro
• Lycidas
• Paradise Lost (1674 ed.)
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes

Short poems

• On Shakespear (1630, publ. 1632)
• On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough (1626)
• On the Lord General Fairfax
• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
• On the University Carrier (1631)
• Another on the Same (1631)
• Tales of a Man (1632)

Sonnets

From Poems (1645)

• I - O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
• II - Donna Leggiadra il cui bel nome honora
• III - Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera
• Canzone
• IV - 'Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia
• V - Diodati, e te'l dirò con maraviglia
• VI - Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante
• VII - How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth
• VIII - Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms
• IX - Lady that in the prime of earliest youth
• X - Daughter to that good Earl, once President, To y^e Lady Margaret Ley

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

• XI - A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon
• XII - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
• XIII - Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song
• XIV - When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
• XV - On the late Massacher in Piemont
• XVI - When I consider how my light is spent
• XVII - Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son
• XVIII - Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench
• XIX - Methought I saw my late espoused Saint

Uncollected sonnets

• Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud
• Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old
• Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear
• To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 (1694)

Works about Milton

• Introduction to The Prose Works of John Milton (1847) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
• “Milton, John (1608-1674),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Milton, John,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Milton, John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Milton, John” by David Masson et al. in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.