by John Milton
MacCaffrey, Isabel G. Paradise Lost as ‘Myth’. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1959.
McColley, Grant. Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major Origins, with a Discussion of Milton’s Use of Sources and Literary Patterns. Chicago: Packard, 1940; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1963.
Parker, William R., “The Date of Samson Agonistes,” Philological Quarterly, XXVIII (1949), 145–66.
Parker, William R. Milton’s Debt to Greek Tragedy in Samson Agonistes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937; reprinted, Hamden: Archon Books, 1963.
Patrides, C. A., ed. Milton’s Epic Poetry: Essays on Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967.
Peter, John. A Critique of Paradise Lost. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1960.
Pope, Elizabeth M. Paradise Regained: the Tradition and the Poem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1947; reprinted, London: Russell and Russell, 1961.
Qvarnström, Gunnar. The Enchanted Palace: Some Structural Aspects of Paradise Lost. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell, 1967.
Rajan, B. Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader. London: Chatto and Windus, 1947; frequently reprinted.
Ricks, Christopher. Milton’s Grand Style. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, 1968.
Ross, Malcolm M. Milton’s Royalism: A Study of the Conflict of Symbol and Idea in the Poems. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1943.
Samuel, Irene. Dante and Milton: The Commedia and Paradise Lost. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1966.
Shawcross, John T., “The Balanced Structure of Paradise Lost,” Studies in Philology, LXII (1965), 696–718.
Shawcross, John T., “The Chronology of Milton’s Major Poems,” PMLA, LXXVI (1961), 45–58.
Sims, James H. The Bible in Milton’s Epics. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1962.
Steadman, John M. Milton and the Renaissance Hero. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
Steadman, John M. Milton’s Epic Characters: Image and Idol. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Stein, Arnold. Answerable Style: Essays on Paradise Lost. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1953; reprinted, Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1967.
Stein, Arnold. Heroic Knowledge: An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1957; reprinted, Hamden: Archon Books, 1965.
Summers, Joseph H. The Muse’s Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1962.
Waldock, A. J. A. Paradise Lost and Its Critics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1947; frequently reprinted.
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Whaler, James. Counterpoint and Symbol. An Inquiry into the Rhythm of Milton’s Epic Style. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1956.
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Index of Titles and First Lines
ITALICIZED PAGE NUMBERS REFER TO TEXTUAL NOTES.
“A book was writt of late call’d Tetrachordon”
“A little onward lend thy guiding hand”
AD EANDEM (AD LEONORAM), 2.1, bm.1; 2.2, bm.2
AD JOANNEM ROÜSIUM, 3.1, bm.1
AD LEONORAM, 2.1, bm.1
AD PATREM, 2.1, bm.1
AD SALSILLUM, 2.1, bm.1
“Adhuc madentes rore squalebant genæ”
“Alas how the wandering mind of man grows weak, driven”
“Altera Torquatum cepit Leonora Poëtam”
“”
“Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)”
“Another Leonora captured the poet Torquato”
ANOTHER ON THE SAME (ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER), 1.1, bm.1
“Antiquity in blindness praised the son of Iapetus”
APOLOGUS DE RUSTICO ET HERO, 1.1, bm.1
ARCADES, 2.1, bm.1
“Arise, up, arise. Now that it is time, shake off slumbers”
“As on a rugged mountain at the darkening of evening”
“As yet my cheeks were not dry with flowing tears”
AT A SOLEMN MUSICK, 2.1, bm.1
AT A VACATION EXERCISE, 1.1, bm.1
“At last, dear friend, your letter has reached me”
“Avenge O Lord thy slaughter’d Saints, whose bones”
“Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord”
“Before the starry threshold of Joves court”
“Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’ns joy”
CANZONE, 1.1, bm.1
“Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms”
CARMINA ELEGIACA, 1.1, bm.1
“Charming lady, she whose beautiful name honors”
“COMUS”, 2.1, bm.1
“Credula quid liquidam Sirena, Neapoli, jactas”
“Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud”
“Cum simul in regem nuper satrapasque Britannos”
“Curre per immensum subitò, mea littera, pontum”
“Cyriack, this three years day these eyes, though clear”
“Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench”
DAMON’S EPITAPH, 2.1, bm.1
“Daughter to that good Earle, once President”
DE IDEA PLATONICA, 1.1, bm.1
“Dicite, sacrorum præsides nemorum deæ”
“Diodati, and I will say it to you with wonder”
“Diodati, e te’l dirò con maraviglia”, 1.1
“Donna leggiadra, il cui bel nome honora”
“Each person’s own particular angel (so believe, nations)”
ELEGIA PRIMA (ELEGY 1), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA SECUNDA (ELEGY 2), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA TERTIA (ELEGY 3), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA QUARTA (ELEGY 4), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA QUINTA (ELEGY 5), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA SEXTA (ELEGY 6), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIA SEPTIMA (ELEGY 7), 1.1, bm.1
ELEGIAC VERSES, 1.1, bm.1
EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER, AN, 1.1, bm.1
EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS, 2.1, bm.1
“Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth”
“Every year a peasant gathered from an appletree the most savory fruit”
FABLE OF THE PEASANT AND THE OVERLORD, THE, 1.1, bm.1
“Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings”, 3.1
FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, THE, 3.1, bm.1
“Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race”
“Gaudete Scombri, et quicquid est piscium salo”
“Gemelle cultu simplici gaudens liber”
“Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante”
“Hæc ego mente olim lævâ, studioque supino”
“Hæc quoque, Manse, tuæ meditantur carmina laudi”
“Hail native Language, that by sinews weak”
“Harry, whose tunefull and well-measur’d song”
“Hence loathed Melancholy”
“Hence vain deluding joyes”
“Here Hobson lies amongst his many betters”
“Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt”
“Here lieth one who did most truly prove”
“Heu quàm perpetuis erroribus acta fatiscit”
“Himerides nymphæ (nam vos et Daphnin et Hylan”
HOBSONS EPITAPH, 1.1, bm.1
“How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth”
“I did but prompt the age to quit thir clogs”
“I was full of sadness, and I was sitting silent with no companion”
“I who e’re while the happy Garden sung”
“I with foolish mind and heedless zeal formerly”
IGNAVUS SATRAPAM DEDECET, 1.1, bm.1
“Ignavus satrapam dedecet inclytum”
IL PENSEROSO, 1.1, bm.1
IN EANDEM (IN PRODITIONEM
BOMBARDICAM), 1.1, bm.1; 1.2, bm.2; 1.3, bm.3
IN EFFIGIEI EJUS SCULPTOREM, 3.1, bm.1
“In his perpetual cycle Time, rolling back”
IN INVENTOREM BOMBARDÆ, 1.1, bm.1
IN OBITUM PRÆSULIS ELIENSIS, 1.1, bm.1
IN OBITUM PROCANCELLARII MEDICI, 1.1, bm.1
IN PRODITIONEM BOMBARDICAM, 1.1, bm.1
IN QUINTUM NOVEMBRIS, 1.1, bm.1
“In se perpetuo Tempus revolubile gyro”
“In truth your fair eyes, my lady”
“”
“Jam pius extremâ veniens Jäcobus ab arcto”
“James derided the Purgatorial fire of the soul”
“Japetionidem laudavit cæca vetustas”
“Ladie, that in the prime of earliest youth”
L’ALLEGRO, 1.1, bm.1
“Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son”
“Learn to submit to the laws of destiny”
“Let us with a gladsom mind”
LINES APPENDED TO ELEGIA SEPTIMA (ELEGY 7), 1.1, bm.1
“Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look”
LYCIDAS, 2.1, bm.1
MANSO, 2.1, bm.1
MANSUS, 2.1, bm.1
MASK, A (“COMUS”), 2.1, bm.1
“Mee thought I saw my late espoused saint”
“Mitto tibi sanam non pleno ventre salutem”
“Mœstus eram, et tacitus nullo comitante sedebam”
NATURAM NON PATI SENIUM, 1.1, bm.1
NATURE DOES NOT SUFFER DECAY, 1.1, bm.1
“Nondum blanda tuas leges, Amathusia, norâm”
“Not yet did I know your laws, enticing Amathusia”
“Now I long for the Pierian fountains”
“Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger”
“Now the devout James coming from the remote north”
“Nunc mea Pierios cupiam per pectora fontes”
“Nymphs of Himera—for you remember Daphnis and Hylas”
“”
“O Fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted”
“O king, if you make an end of me, a lawful person”
“O Musa gressum quæ volens trahis claudum”
“O Muse who willingly drags along with a limping step”
“O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray”
“Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit”
“On an empty stomach I send you a wish for health”
ON SHAKESPEAR, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ELY, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE DEATH OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, A PHYSICIAN, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE ENGRAVER OF HIS LIKENESS, 3.1, bm.1
ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE, 3.1, bm.1
ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE INVENTOR OF GUNPOWDER, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE MORNING OF CHRISTS NATIVITY, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE PLATONIC IDEA, 1.1, bm.1
ON THE SAME (ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT), 1.1, bm.1
ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, 1.1, bm.1
ON TIME, 2.1, bm.1
PARADISE LOST, 4.1, bm.1
PARADISE REGAIN’D, 4.1, bm.1
PARAPHRASE ON PSALM 114, A, 1.1, bm.1
“Parére fati discite legibus”
PASSION, THE, 1.1, bm.1
“Per certo i bei vostr’occhi, Donna mia”
PHILOSOPHER ON HIS WAY…, A, 2.1, bm.1
PHILOSOPHUS AD REGEM…, 2.1, bm.1
PSALMS 1–8, 3.1, bm.1
PSALMS 80–88, 3.1, bm.1
PSALM 114 (Greek version), 2.1, bm.1
PSALM 136, 1.1, bm.1
“Purgatorem animæ derisit Jäcobus ignem”
“Qual in colle aspro, al’ imbrunir di sera”
“Quem modò Roma suis devoverat impia diris”
“Quickly, my letter, run through the boundless deep”
“Quis expedivit Salmasio suam Hundredam”
“Quis multa garcilis te puer in rosa”
“Rejoice, mackerel, and whosoever is of the fish in the deep”
“Ridonsi donne e giovani amorosi”
“Rusticus ex Malo sapidissima poma quotannis”
SAMSON AGONISTES, 4.1, bm.1
“Say, goddesses, guardians of the sacred groves”
“Scoffing, amorous maidens and young men”
“Siccine tentasti cælo donâsse Jäcobum”
“SLOTHFUL SLEEP …”, 1.1, bm.1
“Slothful sleep is unbecoming to a famous governor”
SONG: ON MAY MORNING, 1.1, bm.1
SONNETS 1–3, 1.1, bm.1
SONNETS 4–6, 1.1, bm.1
SONNET 7, 2.1, bm.1
SONNETS 8–10, 3.1, bm.1
SONNET 11, 3.1, bm.1
SONNET 12, 3.1, bm.1
SONNETS 13–14, 3.1, bm.1
SONNET 15, 3.1, bm.1
SONNETS 16–17, 3.1, bm.1
SONNETS 18–23, 3.1, bm.1
“Surge, age, surge, leves, iam convenit, excute somnos”
“Tandem, chare, tuæ mihi pervenere tabellæ”
“Te, qui conspicuus baculo fulgente solebas”
“These verses also, Manso, the Pierides are meditating”
“This image was drawn by an untaught hand”, 3.1
“This is the Month, and this the happy morn”
“This rich Marble doth enterr”
“Thus did you strive to vouchsafe James to Heaven”
TO JOHN ROUSE, 3.1, bm.1
TO LEONORA, 2.1, bm.1
TO MY FATHER, 2.1, bm.1
TO SALZILLI, 2.1, bm.1
TO THE SAME (TO LEONORA), 2.1, bm.1
“Two-part book rejoicing in single garb”
UPON THE CIRCUMCISION, 2.1, bm.1
“Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old”
VERSE FROM DEFENSIO SECUNDA, 3.1, bm.1
VERSE FROM PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO, 3.1, bm.1
“What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones”
“What slender Youth bedew’d with liquid odours”
“When Faith and Love which parted from thee never”
“When I consider how my light is spent”
“When recently, at the same time against the King and the British lords”
“When the blest seed of Terah’s faithfull Son”
“When the children of Israel, when the noble tribes of Jacob”
“Who released to Salmasius his ‘hundred’ ”
“Whom impious Rome had just marked out for her curses”
“Why, credulous Naples, do you vaunt your clear-voiced Siren”
“Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright”
“Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more”
“You who, conspicuous with your shining mace, were accustomed”
“Young, gentle, and candid lover that I am”