Poems upon several occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with translations, by John Milton. Viz. Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, Odes, Sonnets, Miscellanies, English Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber [...]

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Full title: Poems upon several occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with translations, by John Milton. Viz. Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, Odes, Sonnets, Miscellanies, English Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber. With notes critical and explanatory, and other illustrations, by Thomas Warton, B. D. late fellow of Trinity College, professor of poetry, and Camden professor of history, at Oxford. The second edition, with many alterations, and large additions. 8vo. pp. xlvi, [2], 608. In English with some Latin, Greek, and Italian; includes translations from classical texts. Warton’s ‘Appendix to Notes on the English Poems’ (pp. 403-407) includes the earliest documentation of Robert Baron’s plagiarism of Milton (see Bib# 4102844/Fr# 314 in this collection). Further examples are provided by H.J. Todd, The Poetical Works of John Milton. With the principal notes of various commentators. London, 1801, VI, pp. 401-406, and see W.R. Parker, Milton: a biography. Second revised edition edited by Gordon Campbell. Oxford & New York, 1996, p. 898, n. 121. See also ESTC, T2380. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.