Author:John Milton

John Milton
(1608–1674)

John Milton

Works

The following listing of Milton's printed works (under 'poetry', 'prose' and 'posthumous works') is based upon that given on the website of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Poetry / drama

• On Shakespear in "Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies" (1632)
• A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634 (1637), commonly called "Comus"
• Lycidas, included in "Justa Edwardo King Naufrago" (1638)
• Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times (1645) (transcription project)
• Paradise Lost (1667)
• Paradise Regain'd (1671)
• Samson Agonistes (1671)
• Poems, &c. upon several occasions (1673) (transcription project)

Prose

• Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (1641)
• Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641)
• Animadversions Upon the Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus (1641)
• The Reason of Church-governement Urg'd against Prelaty (1642) (transcription project)
• An Apology for Smectymnuus with the Reason of Church-Government (1642)
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both sexes, from the bondage of canon law and other mistakes to the true meaning of Scripture in the law and gospel compar'd: wherein also are set down the bad consequences of abolishing or condemning of sin, that which the law of God allowes and Christ abolisht not (1643, revised version 1644) (transcription project)
• The Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce (1644)
• Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib (1644)

• Tractate on Education (1673), from The Harvard Classics, Volume 3 (1909) (transcription project)

• Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing, to the Parliament of England (1644)
• Colasterion: a reply to a nameles answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Wherein the trivial author of that answer is discover'd, the licencer conferr'd with, and the opinion which they traduce defended. (1645) (transcription project)
• Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in scripture, which treat of mariage, or nullities of mariage (1645). (transcription project)
• Ad Ioannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium (1647)
• The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
• Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels (1649)
• Eikonoklastes: in answer to a book intitl'd Eikon basilike: the portrature of his Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings (1649) (transcription project)
• Ioannis MiltonI Angli Pro populo Anglicano defensio, contra Claudii anonymi, aliàs Salmasii, Defensionem regiam (1651) (external scan)
• Joannis Miltoni Angli Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654) (external scan)
• Defensio Pro Se (1655)
• A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes shewing that it is not lawfull for any power on earth to compell in matters of religion (1659)
• Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church (1659)
• The Readie & Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof Compar'd with The inconveniences and dangers of readmitting Kingship in this nation (1660)
• Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon (1660)
• Accidence Commenced Grammar (1669)
• The History of Britain, That part especially now call’d England. From the first Traditional Beginning, continu’d to the Norman Conquest (1670)
• Artis logicae plenior institutio (1672) (external scan)
• Of True Religion (1673)
• Joannis Miltonii Angli, epistolarum familiarium liber unus: quibus accesserunt, eiusdem, iam olim in collegio adolescentis, prolusiones quædam oratoriae (1674)

Posthumous works

• Character of the Long Parliament (1681)
• A Brief History of Moscovia (1682)
• Letters of state written by Mr. John Milton, to most of the sovereign princes and republicks of Europe, from the year 1649, till the year 1659; to which is added, an account of his life; together with several of his poems, and a catalogue of his works, never before printed (1694)
• A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton both English and Latin (1694-98)
• De Doctrina Christiana (1825)

Individual poems

The following are mostly derived from the collections of 1645/1673 listed above.

• On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough (1626)
• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
• On Shakespear (1630, publ. 1632)
• On the University Carrier (1631)
• Another on the same (1631)
• Il Penseroso (c.1631)
• L'Allegro (c.1631)
• On the Lord General Fairfax
• Tales of a Man (1632)
• Upon the Circumcision (1633)
• Arcades (1634)
• A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
• Psalm 136
• The Passion
• On Time
• At a Solemn Musick
• An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
• On May Morning

Sonnets

From Poems (1645) (transcription project)

• 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)

Collected works

• Comus (1634)

Works about Milton

• The life of John Milton: containing, besides the history of his works, several extraordinary characters of men and books, sects, parties and opinions (1699), by John Toland (external scan)
• "Milton" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1794), by Samuel Johnson, pp.113-254.
• The Life of John Milton (1877, Vol. 4) by David Masson (external scan)
• Introduction to The Prose Works of John Milton (1847) by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
• "Milton, John (1608-1674)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Milton, John," in 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)
• "New Lights on Milton" in Studies of a Biographer (1902) by Leslie Stephen