The Poetical Works of John Milton. Reprinted from the Original Edition, and Containing Numerous Explanatory Notes. with Memoir. (The 'Arundel Poets')

li, 627 pp. Illustrated. Brown cloth boards with Pegasus embossed on front board, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers. Includes biographical sketch of Milton by David Masson, explanatory notes, and engraved plates (frontispiece, 5 in text). John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.