Milton's Latin Poems Book

Introduction Gordon Teskey vii

The Book of Elegies

The First Elegy: To Charles Diodati 3

The Second Elegy: On the Death of the Cambridge University Beadle 6

The Third Elegy: On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester 7

The Fourth Elegy: To His Tutor, Thomas Young, Now Serving as Chaplain to the English Merchants at Hamburg 10

The Fifth Elegy: On the Approach of Spring 15

The Sixth Elegy: To Charles Diodati, Staying in the Country 20

The Seventh Elegy: "Not Yet, O Gentle Venus" 24

The Epigrams

On the Gunpowder Plot 31

On the Same 31

On the Same 31

On the Inventor of Gunpowder 32

To Leonora, Singing at Rome 32

To the Same 31

Fable of the Peasant and the Landlord 33

On Salmasius 33

The Book of the Woods

On the Death of the Vice Chancellor, a Physician 37

On the Fifth of November 40

On the Death of the Bishop of Ely 47

That Nature Does Not Suffer from Old Age 49

The Platonic Idea as Understood by Aristotle 52

To My Father 54

To Salzilli, the Roman Poet, When He Was Ill 58

Manso 60

Damon's Epitaph 64

To John Rouse, Librarian of Oxford University 73