Four poems of Milton’s young manhood. The twin pieces ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’ set the cheerful man’s day beside the thoughtful man’s night; Comus, the masque performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634, pits a virtuous Lady against an enchanter; and ‘Lycidas’ mourns his drowned Cambridge friend Edward King.
The essential short Milton, written before Paradise Lost and still among the most musical verse in English. Download the free EPUB.