Facsimile of the manuscript of Milton's minor poems : Preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Type of record: Book
Title: Facsimile of the manuscript of Milton's minor poems : Preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge
Classmark: Large English H-72 MIL
Publisher: The University Press
Publication city: Cambridge
Date(s): 1899
Language: English
Size and medium: 7 pages, 47 numbered l
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/232710
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012743269705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Preface signed: William Aldis Wright.
The manuscript, mainly in Milton's own hand, written between 1633 and 1648, includes several drafts of some of the poems, and many corrections.
Each facsimile is accompanied by a transcription of the text in ordinary type.
Contents: Arcades.--Song ʻBlest 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 ʻOn the forcers of Conscience,̓ Sonnets XXI. (in part) and XXII, XXIII.
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