title: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems (Modern Library Classics)
author: John Milton
description: <b>John Milton </b>(160874), the great English poet, is best known for his epic masterpiece, <i>Paradise Lost</i>. In addition to writing brilliant verse, he was a master of polemical prose. Milton was a private tutor and, during the Interregnum, the Secretary for Foreign Tongues in Oliver Cromwells government.<br /> <br /> <b>William Kerrigan</b>s<b> </b>previous books include <i>The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost, </i>for which he won the James Holly Hanford Award of the Milton Society of America. A former president of the Milton Society, he has earned numerous distinctions from that group, including its award for lifetime achievement. He is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts.<br /> <br /> <b>John Rumrich</b> is the author of <i>Matter of Glory: A New Preface to Paradise Lost </i>and <i>Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation</i>. An award-winning editor and writer, he is Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches early modern British literature.<br /> <br /> <b>Stephen M. Fallon </b>is the author of <i>Miltons Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority </i>and <i>Milton Among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England, </i>winner of the Milton Societys Hanford Award. A recipient of the Milton Societys lifetime achievement award, he is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor in the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.<br /> <br /> <b>Gordon Braden </b>(translator) is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia and co-author, with William Kerrigan, of <i>The Idea of the Renaissance</i>.
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  JOHN MILTON
  
  
  (1608–1674)
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [The Poetry Collections](index_split_004.html#filepos12702)
  
  
  [POEMS, 1645](index_split_008.html#filepos17052)
  
  
  [PARADISE LOST](index_split_070.html#filepos440126)
  
  
  [PARADISE REGAINED](index_split_092.html#filepos1268001)
  
  
  [SAMSON AGONISTES](index_split_100.html#filepos1395711)
  
  
  [POEMS, 1673](index_split_109.html#filepos1868184)
  
  
  [VERSES FROM MILTON’S COMMONPLACE BOOK](index_split_146.html#filepos2003663)
  
  
  [The Poems](index_split_150.html#filepos2009017)
  
  
  [LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER](index_split_151.html#filepos2010171)
  
  
  [LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER](index_split_152.html#filepos2045239)
  
  
  [The Prose Works](index_split_153.html#filepos2081514)
  
  
  [AREOPAGITICA](index_split_154.html#filepos2082385)
  
  
  [THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE](index_split_157.html#filepos2209920)
  
  
  [ON EDUCATION](index_split_199.html#filepos2492375)
  
  
  [COLASTERION](index_sp