哈佛经典04－Complete Poems Written in English of John Milton

　　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

　　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.Miltons'works will convince readers that to this calss Milton could never have belonged,Milton was passionately devoted to beauty,Side by side with his love of liberty and his enthusiasm for moral purity qualities in which even then the Puritans had no monopoly,The reason why his work survives until today is not because part of it expresses the Puritan theology,but because of its artistic qualities,and above all because it is at once more faultless and more nobly sustained in music than that of any other English poet.