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Summary

John Milton was a poet of many interests and he wrote on various topics, but he was the most famous for his poems on Christian themes. His poetic style was a highly influential poetic structure and his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. 
Contents: 
Introduction
Paradise Lost 
Paradise Regain'd     
Samson Agonistes      
Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which Is Call'd Tragedy  
The Argument  
The Scene Before the Prison in Gaza  
On Time  
Miscellaneous Poems: 
On the Morning of Christs Nativity   
The Passion   
On Time   
Upon the Circumcision   
At a Solemn Musick   
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester   
Song on May Morning   
On Shakespear. 1630   
On the University Carrier Who Sickn'd in the Time of His Vacancy, Being Forbid to Go to London, by Reason of the Plague   
Another on the Same   
L'allegro   
Il Penseroso   
Sonnets   
Arcades   
Lycidas   
A Mask Presented at Ludlow-castle, 1634. &c.    
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough   
At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge   
The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.   
Sonnets:
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament   
On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester   
To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652   
To Sr Henry Vane the Younger   
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.   
Psalms:
Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653   
Psal. II Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.   
Psal. III. Aug. 9. 1653   
Psal. IV. Aug. 10.1653   
Psal. V. Aug. 12.1653   
Psal. VI Aug. 13. 1653   
Psal. VII. Aug. 14. 1653   
Psal. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653   
Psal. LXX 
Psal. LXXXI  
Psal. LXXXII   
Psal. LXXXIV   
Psal  LXXXV  
Psal. LXXXVI   
Psal. LXXXVII  
Psal. LXXXVIII 
Prose Writings:
From of Reformation in England, 1641   
From Reason of Church Government, 1641   
From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642   
From Areopagitica, 1644   
From Tetrachordon, 1645   
From the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649   
From History of Britain, 1670

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