| Description |
7 p., 47 numb. l. 47 facsim. 41 x 30 cm. |
| Note |
Preface signed: William Aldis Wright. |
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The manuscript, mainly in Milton's own hand, written between 1633 and 1648, includes several drafts of some of the poems, and many corrections. |
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Each facsimile is accompanied by a transcription of the text in ordinary type. |
| Contents |
Arcades.--Song `Blest pair of Sirens."--Letter to a friend. Sonnet II.--Another draft of the same letter.--On time.--Upon the circumcision.--Sonnets VIII, IX, and X.--[Comus] A maske.--Lycidas.--First sketch of Paradise lost.--Notes from Old Testament history.--Notes from early English history.--Notes for poems on Scripture subjects: Abram from Morea, Baptistes, Sodom, Adam unparadiz'd--Notes from Scotch stories: Moabitides or Phineas. Christus patiens.--Sonnets XIII, XII, XIV; XIII and XIV; XII and XI; XI, XV, and XVI; XVII, and `On the forcers of Conscience, Sonnets XXI (in part) and XXII, XXIII. |
| Added Author |
Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914
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