The complete online text of Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton.

John Milton's career as a writer of prose and poetry spans three distinct eras: Stuart England; the Civil War (1642-1648) and Interregnum, including the Commonwealth (1649-1653) and Protectorate (1654-1660); and the Restoration. When Elizabeth I, the so-...

John Milton's career as a writer of prose and poetry spans three distinct eras: Stuart England; the Civil War (1642-1648) and Interregnum, including the Commonwealth (1649-1653) and Protectorate (1654-1660); and the Restoration. When Elizabeth I, the so-...

John Milton's claim to continued recollection rests primarily, of course, on his preeminence as a poet. In 1642 he said that he had been forced by a sense of political duty to interrupt his efforts to become "a Poet soaring in the high region of his fanc...

Washington, D.C. "Brothers," they live in houses unfettered by mothers, by sisters, by the battle of the sexes or by any other at odds. Neighbors they are to me here and I watch them, drawn to the window by their night- cries in...

John Milton's poem 'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' contains a subtext of political liberation, using liturgical language. The poem is ostensibly a lament for the death of Milton's niece. Liturgical concepts from the Feasts of St. Anne and...