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Milton: Complete Shorter Poems (2nd Edition)

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Milton is a poet of the deepest reflective seriousness, and of memorable moving lines of imposing length and beauty. The great dignity and depth of Milton's verse is sometimes obscured for the reader by the plethora of classical reference. The power and sense of struggle, the immense elegaic richness and Latinate elegance of this verse speaks down the ages.

I have always found the shorter poems, including the not very short one of 'Lycidas' as the most personally moving(Samson Agonistes aside) . I cannot say I know or even have read the greatest share but there are some which are with me wherever I go.

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

" Does God exact day labor light denied?"

This book compliments the Longman edition of Paradise Lost, and therefore gives one a complete set of Milton's poems. This, along with the other book,is easy to ready because the poetry on each page is relatively short; footnotes serve to split the text and therefore make it easy to read. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of Milton scholarship, and since this book is out of print, Amazon is one of the only companies to offer brand new copies.