List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Editorial Procedures
Introductions
The 1645 Poems
Poems added in 1673
Poems omitted in 1645 and 1673, published and manuscript
versions
Trinity Manuscript of A Mask, transcription
Bridgewater Manuscript of A Mask, transcription
Commentaries
Appendix A: Poems published in other places and manuscript
versions
Appendix B: Trinity Manuscript versions not elsewhere
transcribed
Appendix C: Other manuscript versions
Appendix D: Other Hobson Poems
Appendix E: Henry Lawes' Music for the Songs in A Mask, with
commentary
Re-issued 2014
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski is William R. Kenan Jr. Research Professor
of History and Literature and of English at Harvard University. She
held professorial chairs and taught at Harvard and at Brown
University for many years, and served as Director of Graduare
Studies in English at both institutions. Her several books and
articles are chiefly in the area of Renaissance English literature,
especially Milton. Her Life of John Milton: a Critical Biography
(2000)
won the James Holly Hanford prize of the Milton Society of America;
her Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
(l979) was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize for best book, by
the
Modern Landuage Association. She has held visiting appointments at
several universities, including in China (the Beijing Foreign
Studies University) and has lectured widely in America, England,
and elsewhere. Estelle Haan is Professor of English and Neo-Latin
Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast. She is the
author/editor of twelve books spanning her research interests in
neo-Latin literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
These include From Academia to Amicitia:
Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies (1998), Thomas
Gray's Latin Poetry: Some Classical, Neo-Latin and Vernacular
Contexts (2000), Andrew Marvell's Latin Poetry: From Text to
Context (2003),
Classical Romantic: Identity in the Latin Poetry of Vincent Bourne
(2007), Both English and Latin: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in
Milton's Neo-Latin Writings (2012). In addition to authoring a
stream of articles on Milton, she contributed two essays to The
Oxford Handbook of Milton (2009). She is currently editing Milton's
Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus , and uncollected letters for
The Oxford Complete Works of John Milton , Volume 11.
The edition of Milton's Shorter Poems has so many solid virtues ...
The poems are presented elegantly on the page, with short but clear
notes at the back ... It includes at the back a cornucopia of
transcriptions from the Trinity Manuscript and of early versions of
Comus. These are available elsewhere, but are difficult to gather
in a single place, and they give generous space within the volume
to Milton the tentative reviser.
*Colin Burrow, London Review of Books*
There is no question that Lewalski's and Haan's many achievements
in preparing this monumental edition are singularly impressive. The
present volume will instantly establish itself as the definitive
resource for any reader interested in Milton's shorter poems, and
it is scarcely imaginable that it will ever be eclipsed or be in
need of replacing ... this edition's greatest achievement is the
way in which it succeeds in giving Milton's Latin poems the pride
of place they have long deserved as fully integral to Milton's
complete poetic imagination ... with this definitive edition,
Lewalski and Haan have undoubtedly set a new standard for any
future scholarly engagement with Milton's poetry.
*Noam Reisner, The Review of English Studies*
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