Among English men of letters,there is none whose life and work stand in more intimeate relation with the history of his times than those of Milton.In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet.from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel,and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to an epic poet obsessed with the intractability of sin.A master of almost every verse style,Milton left a body of work unrivaled in literary history

POEMS WRITTEN AT SCHOOL AND AT COLLEGE,1624-1632
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV
Psalm CXXXVI
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
At a Vacation Exercise in the College,Part Latin,Part English
The Passion
On Shakespeare
On the Universtity Carrier
Another on the Same
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty-Three
POEMS WRITTEN AT HORTON,1632-1638
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Sonnet to the Nightingale
Song on May Morning
On Time
At a Solemn Music
Upon the Circumcision
Arcades
Comus,a Mask
Lycidas
POEMS WRITTEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND THE PROTECTORATE,1642-1658
PARADISE LOST,1658-1663
PARADISE REGAINED,1665-1667
MILTON'S INTRODUCTION TO SAMSON AGONISTES
SAMSON AGONISTES,1667-1671