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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, / That to the height of this great argument / I may assert eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God to men.

—Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

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John Milton

WORKS: Complete Poems Written in English
Paradise Lost and Regained—among the greatest epic poems of any age—combined with the full array of Milton’s English works. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. IV.; Areopagitica
Responds to attempts of the day to “license,” or ban, religious and political writings. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 3.; Tractate on Education
A personal epistle aimed at the training of youth in the classic and poetic traditions as well as the future of scientific studies. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 4.; Bartlett’s Milton Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE: Arcades (excerpt) (OBEV); At a Solemn Music (Gold); At a Solemn Musick (OBEV); Comus i (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus ii (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus iii (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus iv (excerpt) (OBEV); Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (OBEV); Il Penseroso (Gold); Il Penseroso (OBEV); L'Allegro (Gold); L'Allegro (OBEV); Light (OBEV); Lycidas (Gold); Lycidas (OBEV); Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (Gold); On His Blindness (Gold); On His Blindness (OBEV); On His Deceased Wife (OBEV); On Shakespear. 1630 (Meta); On the Late Massacre in Piemont (Gold); On the Morning of Christs Nativity (Meta); On Time (OBEV); Samson Agonistes i (excerpt) (OBEV); Samson Agonistes ii (excerpt) (OBEV); To Cyriack Skinner (Gold); To Cyriack Skinner (OBEV); To Mr. Lawrence (Gold); To Mr. Lawrence (OBEV); To the Lady Margaret Ley (Gold); When the Assault Was Intended to the City (Gold)
WRITINGS ABOUT MILTON: “Milton”
Chapter by George Saintsbury with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.

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