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Works by John Milton
- 1624 Prolusions
- 1624 manuscript
- 1932 'Private Correspondence and Academic Exercises'
Translations Of Milton's Prolusiones
by E.M.W. Tillyard
- 1969 reprint of 1932
Folcroft Press
Uncertain copyright status
- 1631 "An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester"
- 1631 Hobson poems
- 1632 'On Shakespear'
- 1632 in Shakespeare's 2nd folio
- 1640 varient text in Shakespeare's folio
RWW: there was no folio for 1640
- 1634 Trinity College, Cambridge MS. - Holograph and scribal hands
- 1634 The original at Trinity College
- "Arcades"
- "At a Solemn Music"
- Letter to an unknown friend
- "On Time"
- "On Circumcision"
- Sonnets 8, 9, 10. . .
- "Comus"
- "Lycidas"
- 1638 - "Lycidas" In Justa Edovardo King.
- various plans
- Sonnets 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 21, et alia.
- 1899 - facsimile by Wright
- 1900 - Gosse (Atlantic Monthley V85)
- 1972 - Scolar Press, 1972
- 1635 Commonplace Book
- 1641 Of Reformation
1 of 5 antiprelatical tracts
- 1641 May
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Accession: 13042383 Early English Books, Reel 261:E.208:03
- 1641 Of Prelatical Episcopacy
2 of 5 antiprelatical tracts
- 1641 June or July - 1st edition
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Accession: 12741343 Early English Books, Reel 254:E.164:19
- 1641 Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus
3 of 5 antiprelatical tracts
- 1641 Smectymnuus An Answer to a Book entitled, An Humble Remonstrance
This contains a ten-page postscript, sometimes attributed to Milton
- 1641 @
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 12569638 Reel 254:E.161:04
- Early English Books - Accession: 12254687 Reel 155:4; 254:E.166:11
- 1641 Poems &c. on Several Occasions
- 1641 - 1st edition
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Accession: 12741343 Early English Books, Reel 254:E.164:19
- 1673 - 2nd edition
with a small tractate of Education
- Early English Books - Accession: 24114767 Reel 1707:08 (UofIL)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12363811 Reel 643:01 (Huntington)
- 1642 The Reason of Church-Government
4 of 5 antiprelatical tracts
- 1642 Jan/Feb
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 12578479 Reel 250:E.137:09
- 1642 An Apology Against a Pamphlet
5 of 5 antiprelatical tracts
- 1642 April
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 12254695 Reel 155:05
- 1642 Tyrannicall-government anatomized
- 1642 @
by George Buchanan
containing 'the life and death of John the Baptist
This translation of Buchanan's Baptistes
has been attributed to Milton by J.T.T. Brown
- Early English Book - Accession: 12137648 Reel 242:E.88:29
- 1643 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- 1643 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 12254727 Reels 155:08; 239:E.62:17
- 1644 @ 2nd edition
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 11995309 Reel 234:E.31:05
- 1645 @ 2nd edition (?)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12187544 Reels 608:10; 720:34
- 1643 A Soveraigne Salve to Cure the Blind
Attributed to John Milton by Dr. Ezra Gillett
- 1643 *
- Early English Books - Accession: 12169615 Reel 244:E.99:23
- 1644 Of Education
- 1644 (June 5 (Masson 'Life of Milton' v. III p. 233))
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 12032163 Reel 237:E.50:12
- 1673 - in 'Poems, &c. on Several Occasions' - 2nd edition
- Early English Books - Accession: 24114767 Reel 1707:08 (UofIL)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12363811 Reel 643:01 (Huntington)
- 1905 - Milton's Tractate on Education
from the edition of 1673
reprint of 1883, 1890, 1895, 1897
- 1644 Areopagitica
- 1644 The Judgement of Martin Bucer
- 1644 @
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 11885607 Reel 228:E.4:19
- 1645 Poems of Mr. John Milton
both in English and Latin
- 1645 Colasterion
- 1645 Tetrachordon
- 1649 Articles of Peace
- 1649 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 13413826 Reel 782:27
- 1649 Eikonoklastes
- 1649 @
- 1650 @ - enlarged edition
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 12322155 Reel 1017:08
- 1649 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
- 1649 @ - first edition
- Early English Books - Accession: 122961909 Reel 155:12
- 1649 @ 2nd edition
- Early English Books - Accession: 12354116 Reel 643:03
- 1650 - 2nd edition
- Scolar Press facsimile
- Early English Books - Accession: 9924643 Reel 1364:02
- Early English Books - Accession: 12311382 Reel 922:09
- 1650 Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio
- 1650 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 13312018 Reel 362:06 (Huntington)
- 1651 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 11792099 Reel 1488:33 (Harvard)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12361245 Reel 643:02 (Huntington)
- Early English Books - Accession: 18664202 Reel 1657:15 (UofIL)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12272840 Reel 1508:13 (UofIL)
- Early English Books - Accession: 11792110 Reel 1488:34 (Harvard)
- Early English Books - Accession: 11792099 Reel 1488:33 (Harvard)
- Early English Books - Accession: 18481481 Reel 1639:23 (UofIL)
- Early English Books - Accession: 10916539 Reel 542:01 (Bristol Public)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12682445 Reel 1531:21. (Harvard)
- 1651 - 2nd edition "Editio emendatior"
- Early English Books - Accession: 12877573 Reel 721:03 (Huntington)
- 1652 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 12350625 Reel 893:12 (UnionTheoSem)
- Early English Books - Accession: 12272878 Reel 1508:14 (UofIL)
- 1659 A Treatise of Civil Power
- 1659 @
- Early English Books - Accession: 12254766 Reel 155:13 (Huntington)
- 1660 Brief Notes Upon a late Sermon
- 1660
- Early English Books - Accession: 12073949 Reel 817:31 (Huntington)
- 1667 Paradise Lost
- 1665 * Manuscript of Paradise Lost, book I
- 1667 @ Paradise Lost, A Poem Written in Ten Books
- Early English Books - Accession: 12996936 391:11 (British Library)
- Accession: 12156486 Early English Books, Reel 609:04 (Huntington)
- Accession: 12156478 Early English Books, Reel 609:05 (Huntington)
- Accession: 12156470 Early English Books, Reel 609:06 (Huntington)
- 1669 * Paradise Lost, A Poem in Ten Books
- Accession: 12156446 Early English Books, Reel 609:07 (Huntington)
- Accession: 12156442 Early English Books, Reel 609:08 (Huntington)
- 1674 @ Paradise Lost in Twelve Books
- Early English Books - Accession: 12156434 Reel 609:09 (Huntington)
- 1670 The History of Britain
- 1670 @ The History of Britain
- Accession: 12156552 Early English Books, 609:03 (Huntington)
- 1671 @
- Accession: 13033196 Early English Books, Reel 745:12 (Huntington)
- 1671 Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
- 1671 @
- Accession: 12180374 Early English Books, Reel 610:02 (Huntington)
Chronologicly
- @ 1645 Above, Joannis Miltoni, Londinesis Poemata
(Copy of Latin poems in Queen's University, Belfast)
- * 1649 Henry Lawrence, The History of Angells
Milton assisted Laurence in the production of this work
Accession: 12933385 Early English Books, Reel 387:19
1650 ed. Accession: 14471598 Early English Books, Reel 1062:22
- @ 1649 Parliamenti Angliae Declaratio
(According to OCLC, this is attributed to Milton
by W.T.A. Whitney in Baptist bibliography.)
Listed in Stuart Tracts, vol. 35, no. 19
- @ 1649? Eikon Basilike.
- @ 1650 Claude Salmasius, Defensio Regia
- * 1651 The Life and Reigne of King Charls,
or The Pseudo-Martyr
Halkett and Laing attribut this to Milton.
Accession: 12254737 Early English Books, Reel 155:09
- * 1652 Carolus I. Britaniarum Rex,
A Securi et Calamo Miltoni Vindicatus
- @ 1652 A Declaration of the Parliament
- @ 1652 Joannis Philippi, Angli Responsio
(No microfilm found)
- @ 1652 Regii Sanguinis Clamor
ed. by Alexander More, written by Pierre du Moulin
- @ 1652 Scriptum Parliament Reipublicae
- @ 1654 An Apology for Smectymnuus
Includes errata
Accession: 12321934 Early English Books, Reel 1017:07. (Cambridge.)
- @ 1654 Joannis Miltoni, Angli Pro Popoluo Anglicano Defensio Secunda.
- @ 1654 Joannis Miltoni, Defensio Secunda Pro Populo Anglicano
According to OCLC, this is the 2nd edition of the Second Defense
Accession: 7421716. No microfilm found.
- @ 1655 A Declaration of His Highness
- @ 1655 Joannis Miltoni Angli, Pro Se Defensio
Accession: 18363092. No microfilm found. LEL microfiche
- @ 1655-74?? De doctrina christiana. [Printed 1825, 1827. . .]
Given the history of Milton scholarship,
this tract should be included in the archive
however the dispute over its authorship is ultimately decided.
- @ 1655 Scriptum Dom. Protectoris
Accession: 9523206 Early English Books, Reels 1253:27; 1328:33
(Huntington)
- @ 1656 Literae ab Olivario Protectorae Angliae
- @ 1657 A Book of the Continuation of Foreign Passages
- * 1658 "To the Reader,"
In The Cabinet Council ed. Milton
Accession: 12381382 Early English Books, Reel 224:20. (Yale.)
- @ 1658 Joannis Miltoni, Angli Pro Populo Anglicano rev. ed.
- @ 1659 Considerations Touching. . . Hirelings
Accession: 12254714 Early English Books, Reel 155:07.
- @ 1660 The Readie & Easie Way
- @ 1660 The Readie and Easie way 2nd ed.
Accession: 13442281 Early English Books, Reel 1552:30. (Harvard.)
- @ 1669 Accedence Comennc't Grammar
Accession: 12254685 Early English Books, Reel 155:03. (Huntington.)
- @ 1672 Joannis Miltoni, Angli, Artis Logicae
Accession: 12782627 Early English Books, Reel 699:14 (Huntington)
- @ 1673 Joannis Miltoni, Angli, Artis Logicae
Accession: 14960680 Early English Books, Reel 1575:12. (Harvard.)
- @ 1673 Of True Religion
Accession: 11982847 Early English Books, Reel 817:33. (Huntington.)
- @ 1673 Poems, & Upon Several Occasions
2nd. of some, w/additions
Accession: 24114767 Early English Books, Reel 1707:08. (Univ. of IL.)
Accession: 12363811 Early English Books, Reel 643:01. (Huntington.)
Partially censored edition.
- * 1674 A Declaration of,
Letters Patents of the Election of this Present King of Poland
Accession: 11742280 Early English Books, Reel 1422:03
- @ 1674 Joannis Miltoni, Angli, Epistolarum Familiarium
Accession: 12156503 Early English Books, Reel 609:02. (Huntington.)
Accession: 18081486 LEL microfiche.
John Milton died
- @ 1675 Skinner MS of transcription of state papers in PRO
- * 1675 Paradise Lost in Twelve Books
2nd ed.
- @ 1676 Literae Pseudo-senatus Anglicani, Cromwelli ...
Accession: 11859119 Early English Books, 502:4
- @ 1677 The History of Britain
2nd ed.
Accession: 13033187 Early English Books, Reel 745:13. (Huntington.)
- @ 1678 The History of Britain
2nd ed.
Accession: 12682391 Early English Books, Reel 1531:20. (Harvard.)
- * 1678 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books
3rd ed.
Accession: 12351089 Early English Books, Reel 642:24. (Huntington.)
- * 1680 Paradise Regained with Samson Agonistes
2nd ed.
Accession: 12181279 Early English Books, Reel 610:03. (Huntington)
- * ? 1680 A Supplement to Dr. Du Moulin "Treating the likeliest. . ."
[Above]. . . Vindication of Rich. Baxter
- * ? 1681 Mr. John Milton's Character of the Long Parliament??
Attributed to Milton and James Tyrrell.
Accession: 12254707 Early English Books, Reels 155:06; 1106:08
(Huntington Library; Union Theological Seminary.)
- @ 1682 A Brief History of Moscovia
Accession: 11824989 Early English Books, Reel 817:30. (Huntington.)
- @ 1682 Milton's Republican-Letters. . . 1648. . . 1659
Accession: 24119285 Early English Books, Reel 1707:09. (UofIL)
- @ 1686 Paradisus amissa, poema herocium
Interesting translation into Latin
in Harvard and NYPL
but apparently not attributed directly to Milton himself
(10 book edition)
Accession: 11792074 Early English Books, Reel 1488:32. (Harvard.)
- @ 1688 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books
4th ed.
Accession: 12156426 Early English Books, Reel 609:10.
Accession: 12951147 Early English Books, Reel 720:35.
(Both above are in the Huntington Library.)
- @ 1689 Pro Populo Adversus Tyrannos:
or, The Sovereign Right and Power of the People Over Tyrants. . .
With Some Reflections. (Version of the 1649 ed. of the Tenure)
Accession: 12877588 Early English Books, Reel 721:02. (Huntington.)
- * 1690 Eikonoklastes
Accession: 12157556 Early English Books, Reel 609:01. (Huntington.)
- @ 1690 William Hog, Paraphrasis Poetica in Tria Johannis Miltoni.
(Latin translations of the two epics and Samson.)
Accession: 12787635 Early English Books, Reel 699:16.
(Cambridge University Library copy; truncated version at Univ. of IL.)
- * 1691 Thomas Power, trans. Paradisi amissi, liber primus.
Accession: Early English Books, Reel 1017:09.
- * 1691 Paradise Lost. A poem in Twelve Books
5th ed.
Accession: 24114271 Early English Books, 1707:07. (Harvard.)
- @ 1691 Anthony a Wood, "John Milton," from Fasti Oxoniensis
- @ 1692 A defence of the People of England,
trans. Joseph Washington.
Accession: 12996889 Early English Books, Reel 391:10 (Union Theo. Sem.)
Accession: 18081457. LEL microfiche
- * 1692 Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books
5th ed.
Accession: 12181287 Early English Books, Reel 610:01. (Huntington.)
- @ 1694 Letters of State
trans. Edward Phillips
includes The Life of John Milton, and some Sonnets.
Accession: 12376519 Early English Books, Reel 922:08 (Union Theo. Sem.)
- @ 1694 Above, The Life of John Milton
- @ 1694 Lusus Amatorius. . .
This apparently includes fragments of PL
translated by Charles Blake
Accession: 15682774. Early English Books, Reel 1708:02. (Univ. of IL.)
- @ 1694 Paraphrasis Latina in duo poemata
An edition of "Lycidas"
Accession: 22424626. Early English Books, Reel 1552:29. (Harvard.)
- * 1695 A Defence of the People of England.
Accession: 12682304. Early English Books, Reel 1531:19. (Harvard.)
- * 1695 The History of Britain
3rd ed.
Accession: 18182490 Early English Books, Reel 1128:05. (Huntington.)
Accession: 13442144 Early English Books, Reel 1552:28. (Harvard.)
- * 1695 Poems Upon Several Occasions Folio
3rd ed.
Accession: 12185290 Early English Books, Reel 610:05. (Huntington.)
- @ 1695 The Poetical Works of John Milton
Annotated by Patrick Hume
Accession: 12254743 Early English Books, Reel 155:10; 721:01. (Yale)
- * ? 1696 Foedus Anglicum, treaty with Sweden by Milton?
- * ? 1697 The Works of Mr. John Milton
English prose only
Accession: 12165282 Early English Books, Reel 111:14. (Yale)
- @ 1698 Comoedia Joannis Miltoni
translation of Comus
Accession: 12073881 Early English Books, Reel 817:32. (Huntington.)
- @ 1698 A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political,
and Miscellaneous works of John Milton, Both English and Latin. . .
Life of the Author attributed to John Toland. . .
it includes an augmented (and apparently suspect) version of
The History of Britain.
Accession: 12171854 Early English Books, Reel 112.01. (Yale)
- @ 1698 Above, volume 3, Joannis Miltoni, Opera Omnia Latina.
- @ 1698 John Toland's The Life of John Milton
There is a facsimile in Two Early Lives of Milton
ed. William H. Hume
Western Reserve University Bulletin 26 (August 1924): 1-86
- * 1699 John Hopkins, Milton's Paradise Lost Imitated in Rhyme
Accession: 12176805 Early English Books, 107:11.
- @ 1699 John Toland's Amyntor.
Eighteenth Century
- @ 1700 Oliver Cromwell's Letters to Foreign Princes
trans. by Edward Phillips
with an appendix, pages 46-48, on Milton's contribution
- * pre-1700 John Milton, An Englishman, His Defence
Anonymous English translation in MS
different from Joseph Washington's
in Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand.
- * 1702 Paradisus amissa
Translation by C. Bold. Several later editions.
Accession: 5680668 Library of Congress microfilm
- @ Joseph Addison
Notes Upon the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost (London: 1719)
- @ 1725 Elijah Fenton, "The Life of John Milton"
There is a facsimile in Two Early Lives of Milton
ed. William H. Hume
Western Reserve University Bulletin 26 (August 1924): 87-94.
- @ 1732 Richard Bentley
Dr. Bentley's Emendations of the twelve books of Paradise Lost.
Accession: 4177983 UMI microfilm, 1978.
- @ 1732 Zachary Pierce
A review of the text of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which
the chief of Bentley's emendations are considered. . .
Accession: 3760238 UMI microfilm, 1977.
Accession: 66651802 UMI microfilm, 1979.
Accession: 17414959 LEL microfiche, 11353.
- @ 1734 Jonathan Richardson
Explanatory notes and remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost.
Accession: 17638768 LEL microfiche 10168.
Accession: 633494 AMS Press reprint hardbound, 1973.
Accession: 140340 Garland reprint, 1970.
- @ 1738 Thomas Birch
prefixed a life of Milton to his edition of the prose
- @ 1740 Francis Peck
New Memoirs of the life and poetical works of John Milton
1740
Accession: 6740118 UMI microfilm, 1979.
Accession: 17407199 LEL microfiche 10150.
- * 1741, 1744 Joannis Miltoni Paradissus Amissus, latine redditus
Accession: 100476629.
- @ 1749 Paradise Lost
ed. Thomas Newton
This includes a composite life of Milton
taken from Phillips, Toland, Bayle, Fenton, Richardson and Birch
- * 1750 Paradisus Amissi
Translation of Wm. Dobson.
- @ 1752 Milton's Paradise Lost: a poem. . .
with notes. . .from Dr. Bentley,
Dr. Pearce, Richardson and son, Addison, Patterson, Newton,
and other authors
Also incdes "The life of John Milton." by Elijah Fenton
- * 1768 Neandri Academici Roboret
Lapsus protparentum ex poemate Miltoni. . .
(Translation of Books I-VI attributed to Ludwig Bertrand Neumann)
Accession: 21258642.
- * 1773 Zachary Pearce
-
A Review of the Text of . . . PL.
Accession: 14455071 Princeton University microfilm
- * 1773 Jonathan Richardson, The Works.
Accession: 32670225 Eighteenth-century Sources, Keswick, Va.
Micrographics, microfilm No. 948.
Accession: 88815 1969 G. Olms Verlag
(hardbound reprint from Hildesheim.)
- @ 1779?? Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Mr. John Milton"
- * 1790 John Jortin, "Remarks on Milton," In Lusus Poeticae.
LEL microfiche, 21861-62
- * 1792-1793 Capel Lofft's edition of PL.
- @ 1796 William Hayley
The Life of John Milton
2nd ed.
Facsimile by Joseph Antony Wittreich
(Gainesville, Fla.: Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1970). 328p.
Nineteenth Century
- @ 1801 Rev. Henry John Todd
-
The Life of John Milton prefixed to Milton's works
- * 1805 Seymour, E.H.
Remarks, critical, conjectural, and explanatory. . .
Eighteenth Century Sources for the Study of English Literature,
Reel 311, item 1. Keswick, Va. 1980
Another microfilm owned by Nat'l Cash Register Corp.
UmF microfilm, PCMI collection: 000200
- @ 1809 Henry John Todd, The Life of John Milton
2nd ed.
- @ 1825 and 1827 On Christian Doctrine
trans. Charles Richard Sumner
(Often reprinted, no microfilm found)
- * 1825 Milton, Not Milton
by Bishop Thomas Burgess
Rediscovered by Professor William Hunter
On authorship of De Doctrina.
- @ 1826 Rev. Henry John Todd
The Life of John Milton
3rd. ed.
- * 1829 Milton's Familiar Letters
(Philadelphia: E. Littel, 1829) 120p.
- * 1832 Edward Greswell, trans.
Joannis Miltoni Fabulae Samson Agonistes, et Comus.
Accession: 13588896.
- * 1875 John W. Hales, editor
Aeropagitica - with introduction and notes ...
1892
- * 1879 |Sprague, Homer Baxter (1829-1918)|, editor
Milton's Paradise Lost - Book I and II |Sprague-lost|
with notes ...
1879
- * 1879 |Sprague, Homer Baxter (1829-1918)|, editor
Lycidas |sprague-lycidas|
with notes ...
1879
Twentieth Century
- * 1932, 38 The Early Lives of Milton
ed. Helen Darbishire
Contains remarks attributed to John Aubrey, John Phillips,
Anthony a Wood, Edward Phillips, John Toland, and Jonathan Richardson.
Uncertain copyright status.
Works about John Milton
- Masson - Life
- 1984 Milton: A Bibliography For the Years 1624-1700
John Shawcross
Binghamton, N.Y.: MRTS
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