Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton

by John Milton

  BOOK II

  (Argument) shall / should 1669 printing. (282) where, 1667 / were, 1674. (483) thir 1667 / her 1674. (527) his 1667 / this 1674. (881) grate / great 1667, corrected by erratum.

  BOOK III

  (Argument) his right hand / the right hand 1669 printing; plac’t here, / plac’t there, 1669 printing. (592) Mettal / Medal 1667, 1674. (594) With / Which 1667. (741) in / with 1667, State 1, corrected by erratum.

  BOOK IV

  (Argument) find him / find him out 1668, 1669. (451) on 1667 / of 1674. (627) walk / walks 1667. (705) shadier 1667 / shadie 1674. (928) The 2667 / Thy 1674.

  BOOK V

  (Argument) appearance / appearing 1669 printing. (257) indented 1667, States 1, 2. (361) indented 1667, 1674. (616) not indented 1667, State 1. (627) now / missing 1667. (636–40) text revised in 1674. (636) missing 1667. (637) in communion / with refection 1667. (638–39) missing 1667. (640) Excess, / Are fill’d, 1667. (659) in / missing 1667, added by erratum. (830) one / our 1667, State 1.

  BOOK VII

  (25) dayes, / tongues; 1669 printing. (126) as / a 1669 printing. (224) the / his 1669 printing. (366) her / his 1667. (451) Soul / Fowle 1667, Foul 1674.

  BOOK VII

  Continued as VII.641–1290 in 1667; Argument is the last half of the Argument of VII. (Argument) Adam inquires / Adam then inquires 1668, 1669; search / seek 1669 printing. (1–3) added 1674. (4) To whom thus Adam gratefully repli’d. 1667. (269) as 1667 / and 1674. (398) not indented 1674.

  BOOK IX

  This is Book VIII in 1667. (92) sleights / fleights 1667. (186) Nor / Not 1667. (213) hear 1667 / bear 1674. (347) aught / ought 1667. (394) Likest 1667 / Likeliest 1674. (632) made / make 1667. (922) hast 1667 / hath 1674. (1019) we 1667 / me 1674. (1092) for 1667 / from 1674. (1093) from 1667 / for 1674. (1183) Woman / Women 1667, 1674.

  BOOK X

  This is Book IX in 1667. (Argument) Son / Angels 1669 printing; meet / met 1674, State 1; full assembly 1668, 1669 / full of assembly 1674; taste 1668, 1669 / take 1674. (58) may 1667 / might 1674. (241) Avengers, / Avenger, 1667. (397) those 1667 / these 1674. (408) prevail, 1667 / prevailes, 1674. (550) fair 1667 / omitted 1674. (827) then / omitted 1667. (989–90) So Death printed in l. 990 in 1667, 1674.

  BOOK XI

  First half of Book X (ll. 1–897) and of Argument in 1667, 1668. (Argument) but declares / and declares 1669 printing; Cherubim / Cherubims 1669 printing. (380) to amplest 1667 / to the amplest 1674. (427) sin derive 1667 / derive 1674. (485–87) added 1674. (551–52) Of rendring up. Michael to him repli’d. 1667. (579) last / lost 1667, corrected by erratum. (651) tacks 1667 / makes 1674. (870) who / that 1667.

  BOOK XII

  Last half of Book X (ll. 898–1541) and of Argument in 1667, 1668. (Argument) The Angel … Fall; / thence from the Flood relates, and by degrees explains, who that Seed of the Woman shall be; 1668, 1669. (1–5) added 1674. (6) not indented 1667. (191) The / This 1667. (238) what they besaught / them thir desire, 1667. (534) Will 1667 / Well 1674.

  PARADISE REGAIN’D

  Date: c. 1646–48 ?; revised or, according to some critics, written after 1665; based on evidence of prosodic development (see Shawcross, “Chronology”).

  Text: 1671*.

  All variants are from 1671. BOOK I (226) subdue. / destroy. erratum replaces. (333) aught / ought (400) Nearer / Never erratum corrects. (417) Imparts / Imports erratum corrects. (470) wrested / rested BOOK II (128) threat’ns then our / threat’ns our erratum adds. (341) pil’d, / pill’d, erratum corrects. BOOK III (238) insight / in sight (324) showers / shower erratum corrects. BOOK IV (124) compliments / complements (217) wast / was (288) ought / aught

  SAMSON AGONISTES

  Date: 1646–48 ?; revised, 1653 or later?; based on prosodic development (see Shawcross, “Chronology”); dates are those conjectured by Parker.

  Text: 1671*.

  All variants are from 1671. Verse: paragraphed at “It suffices …” with no sentence break after “fift Act”. Drama: (157) complain) / complain’d) changed by erratum. (222) motion’d / mention’d changed by erratum. (306) indented State 1. (354) And such / Such first word added by erratum. (390) scent / sent (496) But I misplaced on l. 497. (660) with / to changed by erratum. (720) scent / sent (1248) divulge / divulg’d changed by erratum. (1313) rate, / race, changed by erratum. (1527–35, 1537) added as Omissa. (1552) here / heard changed by erratum.

  Bibliography

  WORKS

  Bush, Douglas, J. E. Shaw, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, eds. A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970. Vol. 1.

  Fletcher, Harris F., ed. John Milton’s Complete Poetical Works, Reproduced in Photographic Facsimile. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1943–48. Four vols.

  Horwood, Alfred, ed. A Common-Place Book of John Milton. London: 1876. In facsimile.

  Patrick, J. Max, gen. ed. The Prose of John Milton. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1967.

  Patterson, Frank A., gen. ed. The Works of John Milton. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1931–38. Eighteen vols. in twenty-one.

  Wolfe, Don M., gen. ed. Complete Prose Works of John Milton. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1953–66. Four vols. in five to date.

  REFERENCE

  Bradshaw, John. A Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton. New York: Macmillan, 1894; reprinted, Hamden: Archon Books, 1965.

  Le Comte, Edward S. A Milton Dictionary. New York: Philosophical Library, 1961.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Fletcher, Harris F. Contributions to a Milton Bibliography, 1800–1930. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1931; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967. Addenda to Stevens.

  Huckabay, Calvin. John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929–1968. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1969.

  Stevens, David H. Reference Guide to Milton from 1800 to the Present Day. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1930; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967. Through 1928.

  BIOGRAPHY

  Clark, Donald l. John Milton at St. Paul’s School. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1948; reprinted, Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1964.

  Darbishire, Helen, ed. The Early Lives of Milton. London: Constable, 1932; reprinted, 1966.

  Dorian, Donald C. The English Diodatis. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1950.

  Fletcher, Harris F. The Intellectual Development of John Milton. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1956–62. Two vols. to date.

  French, J. Milton, ed. The Life Records of John Milton. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1949–58; reprinted, Stapleton, N.Y.: Gordian Press, 1966. Five vols.

  Masson, David. The Life of John Milton. London: 1881–94; reprinted, New York: Peter Smith, 1946. Seven vols.

  Parker, William R. Milton: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Two vols.

  Tillyard, E. M. W. Milton. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930; revised, 1966.

  FAME AND INFLUENCE

  Good, John W. Studies in the Miltonic Tradition. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1915; reprinted, New York: Johnson Reprint Co., 1967.

  Havens, Raymond D. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1922; reprinted, London: Russell and Russell, 1961.

  Nelson, James G. The Sublime Puritan: Milton and the Victorians. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963.

  Parker, William R. Milton’s Contemporary Reputation. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1940.

  Sensabaugh, George. Milton in Early America. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1964.

  Sensabaugh, George. That Grand Whig, Milton. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1952; reprinted, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968.

  Shawcross, John T., ed. Milton: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. Through 1731.

  Wittreich, Joseph A., Jr., ed. The Romantics on Milton. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve Univ. Press, 1970.

  STUDIES OF THE POETRY

  Adams, Robert M. Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics. Ithaca: Cornell Un
iv. Press, 1955; reprinted, 1966.

  Allen, Don Cameron. The Harmonious Vision: Studies in Milton’s Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1954.

  Barker, Arthur, ed. Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965.

  Daniells, Roy. Milton, Mannerism and Baroque. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1963.

  Grace, William. Ideas in Milton. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

  Grierson, H. J. C. Milton and Wordsworth: Poets and Prophets. A Study of Their Reactions to Political Events. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1937; often reprinted.

  Hanford, James Holly. John Milton, Poet and Humanist. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve Univ. Press, 1966.

  Hughes, Merritt Y. Ten Perspectives on Milton. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1965.

  Hunter, William B., Jr., “The Sources of Milton’s Prosody,” Philological Quarterly, XXVIII (1949), 125–44.

  Kermode, Frank, ed. The Living Milton: Essays by Various Hands. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960.

  Lawry, Jon S. The Shadow of Heaven: Matter and Stance in Milton’s Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1968.

  Madsen, William G. From Shadowy Types to Truth: Studies in Milton’s Symbolism. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1968.

  Madsen, William G., “The Idea of Nature in Milton’s Poetry,” Three Studies in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1958. Pages 181–283.

  Mahood, M. M. Poetry and Humanism. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1950; reprinted, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1967.

  Marilla, E. l. Milton and Modern Man: Selected Essays. University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1968.

  Milton Studies in Honor of Harris Francis Fletcher. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1961.

  Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. John Milton: A Reader’s Guide to His Poetry. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.

  Patrick, J. Max, ed. SAMLA Studies in Milton. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1953.

  Prince, F. T. The Italian Element in Milton’s Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954; reprinted, 1962.

  Reesing, John. Milton’s Poetic Art: A Mask, Lycidas, and Paradise Lost. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1968.

  Rudrum, Alan, ed. Milton: Modern Judgements. London: Macmillan, 1968.

  Schultz, Howard. Milton and Forbidden Knowledge. New York: Modern Language Association, 1955.

  Sprott, S. Ernest. Milton’s Art of Prosody. Oxford: Blackwell, 1953.

  Thompson, E. N. S. Essays on Milton. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1914; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967.

  Tillyard, E. M. W. The Miltonic Setting: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1938; often reprinted.

  Tillyard, E. M. W. Studies in Milton. London: Chatto and Windus, 1951; often reprinted.

  Watkins, Walter B. C. An Anatomy of Milton’s Verse. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1955; reprinted, Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1965.

  Whiting, George. Milton and This Pendant World. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1958; reprinted, New York: Octagon Books, 1967.

  Whiting, George. Milton’s Literary Milieu. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1939; reprinted, London: Russell and Russell, 1964.

  GENERAL CRITICISM

  Banks, Theodore. Milton’s Imagery. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1950.

  Barker, Arthur. Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641–1660. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1942; reprinted, 1956.

  Curry, Walter C. Milton’s Ontology, Cosmogony, and Physics. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1957.

  Eliot, T. S. Milton. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind (British Academy). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1947. Variously reprinted.

  Eliot, T. S., “A Note on the Verse of John Milton,” Essays and Studies, XXI (1936), 2–40. Variously reprinted.

  Fink, Zera S. The Classical Republicans. Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1945, 1962.

  Fixler, Michael. Milton and the Kingdoms of God. Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1964.

  Hanford, James Holly, and James Taaffe. A Milton Handbook. Revised edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.

  Kranidas, Thomas. The Fierce Equation: A Study of Milton’s Decorum. The Hague: Mouton, 1965.

  Le Comte, Edward S. Yet Once More: Verbal and Psychological Pattern in Milton. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1954.

  Patrides, C. A. Milton and the Christian Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

  Samuel, Irene. Plato and Milton. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1947; reprinted, 1965.

  Saurat, Denis. Milton: Man and Thinker. Revised edition, London: Dent, 1944, 1946; reprinted, Hamden: Archon Books, 1964.

  Shawcross, John T., “Speculations on the Dating of the Trinity MS of Milton’s Poems,” Modern Language Notes, LXXV (1960), 11–17.

  Svendsen, Kester. Milton and Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1956.

  Wolfe, Don M. Milton in the Puritan Revolution. New York: Thomas Nelson, 1941; reprinted, New York: Humanities Press, 1963.

  MINOR POEMS

  Arthos, John. On “A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle”. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1954.

  Brooks, Cleanth, and John E. Hardy, eds. Poems of Mr. John Milton: The 1645 Edition with Essays in Analysis. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951; reprinted, New York: Gordian Press, 1968.

  Demaray, John G. Milton and the Masque Tradition: The Early Poems, Arcades, and Comus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1968.

  Diekhoff, John S., ed. A Maske at Ludlow: Essays on Milton’s Comus. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve Univ. Press, 1968.

  Elledge, Scott, ed. Milton’s Lycidas: Edited to Serve as an Introduction to Criticism. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

  Honigmann, E. A. J., ed. Milton’s Sonnets. London: Macmillan, 1966.

  Parker, William R., “Notes on the Chronology of Milton’s Latin Poems,” A Tribute to G. C. Taylor. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1952. Pages 113–31.

  Patrides, C. A., ed. Milton’s Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961.

  Smart, John S., ed. The Sonnets of John Milton. Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson, 1921; reprinted, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

  Tuve, Rosemond. Images and Themes in Five Poems by Milton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1957.

  MAJOR POEMS

  Broadbent, J. B. Some Graver Subject: an Essay on Paradise Lost. London: Chatto and Windus, 1960; reprinted, London: Schocken Books, 1967.

  Burden, Dennis H. The Logical Epic: A Study of the Argument of Paradise Lost. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.

  Bush, Douglas. Paradise Lost in Our Time. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1945; reprinted, New York: Peter Smith, 1948, 1957.

  Chambers, A. B., “Chaos in Paradise Lost,” Journal of the History of Ideas, XXIV (1963), 55–84.

  Cope, Jackson I. The Metaphoric Structure of Paradise Lost. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1962.

  Diekhoff, John. Milton’s Paradise Lost, a Commentary on the Argument. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1946; reprinted, New York: Humanities Press, 1958.

  Emma, Ronald David, and John T. Shawcross, eds. Language and Style in Milton. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1967.

  Empson, William. Milton’s God. London: Chatto and Windus, 1961; revised, 1965.

  Evans, J. M. Paradise Lost and the Genesis Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

  Ferry, Anne Davidson. Milton’s Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1963.

  Fish, Stanley E. Surprised by Sin: the Reader in Paradise Lost. London: Macmillan, 1967.

  Frye, Northrop. The Return of Eden. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965.

  Gardner, Helen. A Reading of Paradise Lost. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965.

  Gilbert, Allan H., “Is Samson Agonistes Unfinished?” Philological Quarterly, XXVIII (1949), 176–94.

  Gilbert, Allan H. On the Composition of Paradise Lost. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1947; reprinted, New York: Octagon Book
s, 1966.

  Hägin, Peter. The Epic Hero and the Decline of Heroic Poetry: A Study of the Neoclassical English Epic with special reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost. Bern: Francke, 1964.

  Harding, Davis P. The Club of Hercules: Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1962.

  Jebb, Sir R. C. Samson Agonistes and the Hellenic Drama. London: H. Frowde, 1908.

  Kelley, Maurice. This Great Argument: a Study of Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana as a Gloss upon Paradise Lost. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941; reprinted, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1962.

  Kirkconnell, Watson. The Celestial Cycle: The Theme of Paradise Lost in World Literature, with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1952; reprinted, New York: Gordian Press, 1968.

  Kirkconnell, Watson. That Invincible Samson: The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1964.

  Kranidas, Thomas, ed. New Essays on Paradise Lost. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1969.

  Krouse, F. Michael. Milton’s Samson and the Christian Tradition. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1949; reprinted, Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1963.

  Kurth, Burton O. Milton and Christian Heroism. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1959; reprinted, Hamden, Shoe String Press, 1966.

  Lewalski, Barbara K. Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning, and Art of Paradise Regained. Providence: Brown Univ. Press, 1966.

  Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1942; frequently reprinted.

  Lieb, Michael J. The Dialectics of Creation: Patterns of Birth and Regeneration in Paradise Lost. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1970.