Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems

John Milton was an English writer of poetry and prose during times of war, religious change and political upheaval in England. He is reknowned for his epic poem Paradise Lost.George H. Sabine - 1880-1961 - was a professor of philosophy, dean of the Graduate School and vice president of Cornell University

• Introduction viiPrincipal Dates in Milton’s Life xiOn the Morning of Christs Nativity 1On the Shakespear 9L’Allegro 10Il Penseroso 15Song: On May Morning 20At a Solemn Musick 20Lycidas 21Sonnets 28“O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray” 28“How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth” 28On the Detraction which Follow’d upon my Writing Certain Treatises 29On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester 29To the Lord Generall Cromwell, May, 1652 30To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 31On the Late Massacher in Piemont 31“When I consider how my light is spent” 32“Lawrence of Vertuous Father Vertuous Son” 32To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness 33“Methought I saw my late espoused Saint” 33On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 34Comus, A Mask 35Samson Agonistes 65Selected Bibliography 113