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VERSE
and of
Virgil
/ and
Virgil
1669 printing.

BOOK I
(Argument) This / The
1668, 1669 printings.
(25) Eternal / th’Eternal
1667, corrected by erratum.
(159) aught
MS
/ ought
1667, 1674.
(173) The / This
MS.
(377) thir / the
1667, 1674, MS.
(432) these
MS
/ those
1667, 1674.
(504) th’hospitable dore / hospitable Dores
1667, MS.
(505) Expos’d a Matron to avoid / Yielded thir Matrons to prevent
1667, MS.
(530) fainting / fainted
1667, MS.
(603) courage, / valour,
MS.
(703) founded MS,
1667
/ found out
1674.
(756) Capitol
MS, changed
/ Capital
1667, 1674, MS.
(758) Band and / and Band
1667, reversed by erratum.

BOOK II
(Argument) shall / should
1669 printing.
(282) where,
1667
/ were,
1674.
(483) thir
1667
/ her
1674.
(527) his
1667
/ this
1674.
(881) grate / great
1667, corrected by erratum.

BOOK III
(Argument) his right hand / the right hand
1669 printing;
plac’t here, / plac’t
there,
1669 printing.
(592) Mettal / Medal
1667, 1674.
(594) With / Which
1667.
(741) in / with
1667, State 1, corrected by erratum.

BOOK IV
(Argument) find him / find him out
1668, 1669.
(451) on
1667
/ of
1674.
(627) walk / walks
1667.
(705) shadier
1667
/ shadie
1674.
(928) The 2667 / Thy 1674.

BOOK V
(Argument) appearance / appearing
1669 printing.
(257)
indented
1667, States 1, 2. (361)
indented 1667, 1674.
(616)
not indented
1667, State 1. (627) now /
missing
1667. (636–40)
text revised in 1674.
(636)
missing
1667. (637) in communion / with refection
1667.
(638–39)
missing
1667. (640) Excess, / Are fill’d,
1667.
(659) in /
missing
1667, added by erratum. (830) one / our
1667, State 1.

BOOK VII
(25) dayes, / tongues; 1669
printing.
(126) as / a
1669 printing.
(224) the / his
1669 printing.
(366) her / his
1667.
(451) Soul / Fowle
1667
, Foul
1674.

BOOK VII
Continued as VII.641–1290 in 1667; Argument is the last half of the Argument of VII. (Argument)
Adam
inquires /
Adam
then inquires
1668, 1669;
search / seek
1669 printing.
(1–3)
added
1674. (4) To whom thus
Adam
gratefully repli’d.
1667.
(269) as
1667
/ and
1674.
(398)
not indented
1674.

BOOK IX
This is Book VIII in 1667. (92) sleights / fleights
1667.
(186) Nor / Not
1667.
(213) hear
1667
/ bear
1674.
(347) aught / ought
1667.
(394) Likest
1667
/ Likeliest
1674.
(632) made / make
1667.
(922) hast
1667
/ hath
1674.
(1019) we
1667
/ me
1674.
(1092) for
1667
/ from
1674.
(1093) from
1667
/ for
1674.
(1183) Woman / Women
1667, 1674.

BOOK X
This is Book IX in 1667. (Argument) Son / Angels
1669 printing;
meet / met
1674, State 1;
full assembly
1668, 1669
/ full of assembly
1674;
taste
1668, 1669
/ take
1674.
(58) may
1667
/ might
1674.
(241) Avengers, / Avenger,
1667.
(397) those
1667
/ these
1674.
(408) prevail,
1667
/ prevailes,
1674.
(550) fair
1667
/
omitted
1674. (827) then /
omitted
1667. (989–90) So Death
printed in l. 990 in 1667, 1674.

BOOK XI
First half of Book X (ll. 1–897) and of Argument in 1667, 1668. (Argument) but declares / and declares
1669 printing;
Cherubim / Cherubims
1669 printing.
(380) to amplest
1667
/ to the amplest
1674.
(427) sin derive
1667
/ derive
1674.
(485–87)
added
1674. (551–52) Of rendring up.
Michael
to him repli’d.
1667.
(579) last / lost
1667, corrected by erratum.
(651) tacks
1667
/ makes
1674.
(870) who / that
1667.

BOOK XII
Last half of Book X (ll. 898–1541) and of Argument in 1667, 1668. (Argument) The Angel … Fall; / thence from the Flood relates, and by degrees explains, who that Seed of the Woman shall be;
1668, 1669.
(1–5)
added
1674. (6)
not indented
1667. (191) The / This
1667.
(238) what they besaught / them thir desire,
1667.
(534) Will
1667
/ Well
1674.

PARADISE REGAIN’D
Date:
c. 1646–48 ?; revised or, according to some critics, written after 1665; based on evidence of prosodic development (see Shawcross, “Chronology”).
Text:
1671*.
All variants are from 1671.
BOOK I
(226) subdue. / destroy.
erratum replaces.
(333) aught / ought (400) Nearer / Never
erratum corrects.
(417) Imparts / Imports
erratum corrects.
(470) wrested / rested
BOOK II
(128) threat’ns then our / threat’ns our
erratum adds.
(341) pil’d, / pill’d,
erratum corrects. BOOK III
(238) insight / in sight (324) showers / shower
erratum corrects. BOOK IV
(124) compliments / complements (217) wast / was (288) ought / aught

SAMSON AGONISTES
Date:
1646–48 ?; revised, 1653 or later?; based on prosodic development (see Shawcross, “Chronology”); dates are those conjectured by Parker.
Text:
1671*.
All variants are from 1671.
Verse: paragraphed at “It suffices …” with no sentence break after “fift Act”. Drama:
(157) complain) / complain’d)
changed by erratum.
(222) motion’d / mention’d
changed by erratum.
(306)
indented
State 1. (354) And such / Such
first word added by erratum.
(390) scent / sent (496) But I
misplaced on l. 497.
(660) with / to
changed by erratum.
(720) scent / sent (1248) divulge / divulg’d
changed by erratum.
(1313) rate, / race,
changed by erratum.
(1527–35, 1537)
added as
Omissa. (1552) here / heard
changed by erratum.

Bibliography
WORKS

Bush, Douglas, J. E. Shaw, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, eds.
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970. Vol. 1.

Fletcher, Harris F., ed.
John Milton’s Complete Poetical Works, Reproduced in Photographic Facsimile.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1943–48. Four vols.

Horwood, Alfred, ed.
A Common-Place Book of John Milton.
London: 1876. In facsimile.

Patrick, J. Max, gen. ed.
The Prose of John Milton.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1967.

Patterson, Frank A., gen. ed.
The Works of John Milton.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1931–38. Eighteen vols. in twenty-one.

Wolfe, Don M., gen. ed.
Complete Prose Works of John Milton.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1953–66. Four vols. in five to date.

REFERENCE

Bradshaw, John.
A Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton.
New York: Macmillan, 1894; reprinted, Hamden: Archon Books, 1965.

Le Comte, Edward S.
A Milton Dictionary.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1961.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fletcher, Harris F.
Contributions to a Milton Bibliography
, 1800–1930. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1931; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967. Addenda to Stevens.

Huckabay, Calvin.
John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography
, 1929–1968. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1969.

Stevens, David H.
Reference Guide to Milton from 1800 to the Present Day.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1930; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967. Through 1928.

BIOGRAPHY

Clark, Donald l.
John Milton at St. Paul’s School.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1948; reprinted, Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1964.

Darbishire, Helen, ed.
The Early Lives of Milton.
London: Constable, 1932; reprinted, 1966.

Dorian, Donald C.
The English Diodatis.
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1950.

Fletcher, Harris F.
The Intellectual Development of John Milton.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1956–62. Two vols. to date.

French, J. Milton, ed.
The Life Records of John Milton.
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1949–58; reprinted, Stapleton, N.Y.: Gordian Press, 1966. Five vols.

Masson, David.
The Life of John Milton.
London: 1881–94; reprinted, New York: Peter Smith, 1946. Seven vols.

Parker, William R.
Milton: A Biography.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Two vols.

Tillyard, E. M. W.
Milton.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930; revised, 1966.

FAME AND INFLUENCE

Good, John W.
Studies in the Miltonic Tradition.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1915; reprinted, New York: Johnson Reprint Co., 1967.

Havens, Raymond D.
The Influence of Milton on English Poetry.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1922; reprinted, London: Russell and Russell, 1961.

Nelson, James G.
The Sublime Puritan: Milton and the Victorians.
Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963.

Parker, William R.
Milton’s Contemporary Reputation.
Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1940.

Sensabaugh, George.
Milton in Early America.
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1964.

Sensabaugh, George.
That Grand Whig, Milton.
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1952; reprinted, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968.

Shawcross, John T., ed.
Milton: The Critical Heritage.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. Through 1731.

Wittreich, Joseph A., Jr., ed.
The Romantics on Milton.
Cleveland: Case Western Reserve Univ. Press, 1970.

STUDIES OF THE POETRY

Adams, Robert M.
Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics.
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1955; reprinted, 1966.

Allen, Don Cameron.
The Harmonious Vision: Studies in Milton’s Poetry.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1954.

Barker, Arthur, ed.
Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965.

Daniells, Roy.
Milton, Mannerism and Baroque.
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1963.

Grace, William.
Ideas in Milton.
Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

Grierson, H. J. C.
Milton and Wordsworth: Poets and Prophets. A Study of Their Reactions to Political Events.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1937; often reprinted.

Hanford, James Holly.
John Milton, Poet and Humanist.
Cleveland: Case Western Reserve Univ. Press, 1966.

Hughes, Merritt Y.
Ten Perspectives on Milton.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1965.

Hunter, William B., Jr., “The Sources of Milton’s Prosody,”
Philological Quarterly
, XXVIII (1949), 125–44.

Kermode, Frank, ed.
The Living Milton: Essays by Various Hands.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960.

Lawry, Jon S.
The Shadow of Heaven: Matter and Stance in Milton’s Poetry.
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1968.

Madsen, William G.
From Shadowy Types to Truth: Studies in Milton’s Symbolism.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1968.

Madsen, William G., “The Idea of Nature in Milton’s Poetry,”
Three Studies in the Renaissance.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1958. Pages 181–283.

Mahood, M. M.
Poetry and Humanism.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1950; reprinted, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1967.

Marilla, E. l.
Milton and Modern Man: Selected Essays.
University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1968.

Milton Studies in Honor of Harris Francis Fletcher.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1961.

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope.
John Milton: A Reader’s Guide to His Poetry.
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.

Patrick, J. Max, ed.
SAMLA Studies in Milton.
Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1953.

Prince, F. T.
The Italian Element in Milton’s Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954; reprinted, 1962.

Reesing, John.
Milton’s Poetic Art: A Mask, Lycidas, and Paradise Lost.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1968.

Rudrum, Alan, ed.
Milton: Modern Judgements.
London: Macmillan, 1968.

Schultz, Howard.
Milton and Forbidden Knowledge.
New York: Modern Language Association, 1955.

Sprott, S. Ernest.
Milton’s Art of Prosody.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1953.

Thompson, E. N. S.
Essays on Milton.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1914; reprinted, New York: Russell and Russell, 1967.

Tillyard, E. M. W.
The Miltonic Setting: Past and Present.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1938; often reprinted.

Tillyard, E. M. W.
Studies in Milton.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1951; often reprinted.

Watkins, Walter B. C.
An Anatomy of Milton’s Verse.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1955; reprinted, Hamden: Shoe String Press, 1965.

Whiting, George.
Milton and This Pendant World.
Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1958; reprinted, New York: Octagon Books, 1967.

Whiting, George.
Milton’s Literary Milieu.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1939; reprinted, London: Russell and Russell, 1964.

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