John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989–1999

Editions of the Shorter Poems

28 EDITIONS OF THE SHORTER POEMS Milton, John. 157. Dedicatory Poems. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992. Transcribed from the 1694 volume of Milton’s letters of state. Available on computer file or at http://lion.chadwyck .co.uk/marketing/index.jsp. Milton, John. 158. John Milton: Selected Poems. Dover Thrift Editions. New York: Dover Publications, 1993. viii + 113 pp. Also published in Braille, 3 vols. Pittsburgh: Bower Hill Braillists Foundation, 1993. 224 pp. Includes 20 short poems and Samson Agonistes, reprinted from vol. 4 of the 1909 Harvard Classics. Milton, John. 159. L’Allegro, Il Penseroso , Comus, and Lycidas. Scanned by Edward A. Malone. Champaign, IL: Project Gutenberg, 1996. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/9/397/ 397.txt. Milton, John. 160. A Maske. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992. Comus, preliminaries eliminated. Available on computer file or at http://xtf.lib .virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=chadwyck_ ep/uvaGenText/tei/chep_1.1848.xml. In English Poetry Full-Text Database Literature Online (ProQuest Information and Learning Company). Milton, John. 161. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Comus, Arcades. Three Centuries of Drama; English, 1642–1700. [New Canaan, CT], Readex, [1989]. Carey, John, 153. ed. Complete Shorter Poems. 2nd ed. Longman Annotated English Poets. London: Longman, 1997. xxiv + 523 pp. Incorporates into the headnotes and footnotes much of the scholarship and criticism published since the appearance of the first edition in 1968 (Huckabay and Klemp, no. 300). Draws new material from 700 articles and some 70 books. Covers Milton scholarship and criticism published up to the end of 1995. Suggests new dates for three works, including Samson Agonistes. Review: Gordon Campbell, N&Q 45 (1998): 380–81. Colman, George, 154. ed. Comus: A Masque. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1995. Colman’s altered version of Milton’s Comus, edited for two acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden in October 1772. Music composed by Thomas Augustine Arne. Part of Chadwyck -Healey’s English verse drama database. Available on computer optical disk or at http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/ collections/text/ch_eng_verse_drama .html. Hamilton, Ian, 155. ed. Selected Poems. Bloomsbury Poetry Classics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996. 96 pp. Includes Samson Agonistes and Lycidas. Komori, Teiji, 156. and Tomoko Komori, eds. Milton’s Sonnets. Yamaguchi: Shoten , 1988. Sonnets in English. Introduction and notes in Japanese. EDITIONS OF THE SHORTER POEMS 29 Microfiche reproduction of the 1671 edition of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, a 1799 edition of Comus, and a 1727 edition of Arcades. Milton, John. 162. Poems. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992. Reproduces the 1645 Poems. Eliminates preliminaries and non-English verse. Available on computer file or at http:// lion.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index .jsp. ...