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Milton's 1645 Poems

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586: 613: 19: 708: 357:, Milton identifies himself as a "future poet" on the title page. Some commentators take this as evidence that Milton was self-consciously preparing himself for a greater work. Others, on the other hand, argue that Milton's self-presentation is of "a plural and shifting subject" whose poetic trajectory is not set in stone. 267:
The 1673 book includes all the poems in Milton's 1645 Poems, though not the prefatory material. In addition it includes a few poems written before 1645 but not published in the earlier book, and a number of poems written after 1645. The tract on education is the same as in the 1645 book (Revard,
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The sonnets included are usually referred to as numbers 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23, according to the numbering Milton gave them in his autograph notebook referred to as the "Trinity Manuscript" (see Revard, 2009, p. 543), from its location in the
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Looking at the form of the original, you could say, perhaps, that this likeness had been drawn by a rank beginner; but, my friends, since you do not recognize what is pictured here, have a chuckle at a caricature by a useless
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Though many of these poems are marvels in their own right, critics are divided on how to read the volume as a whole in the scope of Milton's entire poetic career, which is invariably seen as culminating in the
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stresses the mix of antique and modern; of English, Latin and Italian with knowledge of Hebrew and Greek: according to Steiner, Milton manages to unify the
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Skerpan, Elizabeth Penley, Authorship and Authority: John Milton, William Marshall, and the Two Frontispieces of Poems 1645,
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publisher Humphrey Moseley. In 1673, a year before his death, Milton issued a revised and expanded edition of the
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politics Milton had begun to adopt by this time. Milton's publisher, Moseley, supported Royalist poets, such as
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written in Italian language that are not separately denoted. The order of the English poems is as follows:
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Poems etc. on several occasions by Mr John Milton, both English and Latin, composed at several times, etc.
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The Latin poems are divided into "Elegiarum" (Elegies) and "Sylvarum Liber", and conclude with the
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In addition to the first titlepage, the volume contains separate titlepages for the Latin
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2 ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), pp. 31-59; C.W.R.D. Moseley,
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Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times
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Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times
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contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver
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is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of
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Text of the contents, including a facsimile of the title page
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shows that the book was published by Thomas Dring of London.
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It is also debatable to what extent the volume embraces the
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Michael Wilding, "Milton's Early Radicalism," Chapter 4 in
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Colin Burrow, “Poems 1645: the future poet,” Chapter 4 in
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The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
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The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
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Index


William Marshall
John Milton
An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Comus
Lycidas
1646 in poetry
octavo
Royalist
frontispiece
William Marshall
Comus
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Upon the Circumcision
L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Arcades
Lycidas
education
facsimile of the title page
list
Dartmouth College
Wren Library
Trinity College, Cambridge
When I Consider How My Light is Spent
epic poem
Paradise Lost
Vergil's
Georgics
George Steiner

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