Before Paradise Lost, Milton wrote the shorter poems gathered here. They include the ode On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, the lines on Shakespeare, the paired poems of mirth and melancholy L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Arcades, the masque Comus, the pastoral elegy Lycidas and the sonnets, with a sketch of Milton’s life and explanatory notes.
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