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Metaphysical & Cavalier

John Milton

1608–1674

John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet and polemicist, author of the epic Paradise Lost. He went blind in mid-life and composed his greatest work by dictation.

Though he predates the Romantic movement, his blank verse and his figure of Satan shaped nearly every English poet who followed.

Major Works (4)

  1. Comus — Masque, 1634
  2. Paradise Lost — Epic poem, 1667
  3. Paradise Regain'd — Epic poem, 1671
  4. Samson Agonistes — Dramatic poem, 1671

Poems (99)

  1. Sonnet 19: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
  2. On Shakespeare. 1630
  3. Sonnet 7: How Soon Hath Time
  4. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  5. On the Morning of Christs Nativity
  6. The Passion
  7. On Time
  8. Upon the Circumcision
  9. At a Solemn Musick
  10. An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
  11. Song on May Morning
  12. On the University Carrier
  13. Another on the Same
  14. L'Allegro
  15. Il Penseroso
  16. Sonnet 1: O Nightingale
  17. Sonnet 8: Captain or Colonel
  18. Sonnet 9: Lady That in the Prime of Earliest Youth
  19. Sonnet 10: Daughter to That Good Earl
  20. Arcades
  21. Lycidas
  22. On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
  23. At a Vacation Exercise
  24. The Fifth Ode of Horace
  25. Sonnet 11: A Book Was Writ of Late Call'd Tetrachordon
  26. Sonnet 12: I Did but Prompt the Age
  27. Sonnet 13: To Mr. H. Lawes, on His Aires
  28. Sonnet 14: When Faith and Love
  29. Sonnet 20: Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son
  30. Sonnet 21: Cyriack, Whose Grandsire
  31. Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
  32. On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
  33. Sonnet 15: On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester
  34. Sonnet 16: To the Lord Generall Cromwell
  35. Sonnet 17: To Sr Henry Vane the Younger
  36. Sonnet 22: To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness
  37. Psalm 1 (1653)
  38. Psalm 2 (1653)
  39. Psalm 3 (1653)
  40. Psalm 4 (1653)
  41. Psalm 5 (1653)
  42. Psalm 6 (1653)
  43. Psalm 7 (1653)
  44. Psalm 8 (1653)
  45. Psalm 80 (1648)
  46. Psalm 81 (1648)
  47. Psalm 82 (1648)
  48. Psalm 83 (1648)
  49. Psalm 84 (1648)
  50. Psalm 85 (1648)
  51. Psalm 86 (1648)
  52. Psalm 87 (1648)
  53. Psalm 88 (1648)
  54. Italian Sonnet I
  55. Italian Sonnet II
  56. Canzone (Italian Poem III)
  57. Italian Sonnet IV
  58. Italian Sonnet V
  59. Italian Sonnet VI
  60. Elegy I: To Charles Diodati
  61. Elegy II: On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge
  62. Elegy III: On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester
  63. Elegy IV: To My Tutor, Thomas Young
  64. Elegy V: On the Approach of Spring
  65. Elegy VI: To Charles Diodati
  66. Elegy VII
  67. On the Gunpowder Plot
  68. On the Gunpowder Plot II
  69. On the Gunpowder Plot III
  70. On the Gunpowder Plot IV
  71. On the Invention of Gunpowder
  72. To Leonora, Singing in Rome I
  73. To Leonora, Singing in Rome II
  74. To Leonora, Singing in Rome III
  75. The Fable of the Peasant and his Landlord
  76. On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician
  77. On the Fifth of November
  78. On the Death of the Bishop of Ely
  79. That Nature is Not Subject to Decay
  80. On the Platonic Ideal as Understood by Aristotle
  81. To My Father
  82. Psalm CXIV (from Milton's Greek)
  83. Psalm 114 (Milton's English version)
  84. The Philosopher and the King
  85. On the Engraver of his Portrait
  86. On the Engraver of his Portrait (Another Translation)
  87. To Giovanni Salzilli, a Roman Poet, in His Illness
  88. To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa
  89. The Death of Damon
  90. To John Rouse
  91. Italian Sonnet I (Cowper)
  92. Italian Sonnet II (Cowper)
  93. Canzone (Italian Poem III) (Cowper)
  94. Italian Sonnet IV (Cowper)
  95. Italian Sonnet V (Cowper)
  96. Italian Sonnet VI (Cowper)
  97. To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture
  98. On Salmasius's "Hundreda"
  99. On Salmasius

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