Poetry, Drama, Translation, Theology, and Prose

John Milton (1608-1674) stands at the center of seventeenth-century English poetry and republican prose: poet of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes; defender of unlicensed printing in Areopagitica; and a polemicist whose prose moves through church government, divorce, education, political liberty, history, and international state papers.

This shelf gathers a public-domain reading corpus from five witnesses: Beeching's poetical works, Cowper's translations of the Latin, Greek, and Italian poems, the OLL prose volumes, the 1834 Internet Archive prose witness, and the 1825 Sumner translation of A Treatise on Christian Doctrine.*

Texts are split by cohesive work: chapters, internal books, and source-table sections stay inside the work they belong to.

Poetry, Drama, and Verse Translation

• Shorter Poems and Passages
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• Poemata: Latin, Greek, and Italian Poems

Prose Works

• Of Reformation in England
• Of Prelatical Episcopacy
• The Reason of Church-Government
• Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence
• An Apology for Smectymnuus
• Of Education
• Areopagitica
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
• The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce
• Tetrachordon
• Colasterion
• The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
• Observations on the Articles of Peace
• Eikonoklastes
• A Defence of the People of England
• A Treatise of Civil Power
• Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings
• A Letter to a Friend
• The Present Means of a Free Commonwealth
• The Ready and Easy Way
• Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon
• The History of Britain
• Of True Religion
• A Brief History of Moscovia
• A Declaration of Letters Patents for John III of Poland
• Letters of State
• A Manifesto of the Lord Protector
• The Second Defence of the People of England
• Familiar Epistles

Theological Prose

• A Treatise on Christian Doctrine

Additional 1834 Prose Witness Sections

• Accedence Commenced Grammar
• Defensio Pro Populo Anglicano
• Defensio Secunda Pro Populo Anglicano
• Authoris Pro Se Defensio
• Authoris Ad Alexandri Mori Supplementum Responsio
• Joannis Philippi Responsio
• Literae Senatus Anglicani
• Literae Oliverii Protectoris
• Literae Richardi Protectoris and Restituti Parliamenti
• Scriptum Domini Protectoris Contra Hispanos
• Epistolarum Familiarum Liber Unus
• Prolusiones Oratoriae
• Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio
• Petri Rami Vita

Source Witnesses

• Project Gutenberg eBook 1745, The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by H. C. Beeching. SHA-256: 50b4add4774723e2748a7a9ed6e64da9f1419e8fb1bc2b82943f16895278de47
• Project Gutenberg eBook 6929, Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton, translated by William Cowper. SHA-256: 8a409652627037a3218a3a08b2fc08c3883cdbf6c4df12d3810b925236deb238
• Liberty Fund Online Library of Liberty EPUBs, The Prose Works of John Milton, volumes 1-2. SHA-256 vol. 1: 07ba462b7ac8f7d745dd89c264c8092b431ff62b22e2b0a966baf9da856cbe62; vol. 2: 26a11ba8969881f73532858f00bf3828957354bfec8aea158b7e4d83e5d31311
• Internet Archive prose witness: The prose works of John Milton; with an introductory review (London: Westley and Davis, 1834). SHA-256 OCR text: 4c6ac9c609fe22415748395b30d309eff2fbc0094ae4489a48831719402fed40
• Internet Archive theological prose witness: A Treatise on Christian Doctrine: Compiled from the Holy Scriptures Alone, translated by Charles R. Sumner (Cambridge University Press, 1825). SHA-256 OCR text: cb4a9db573f217565cf31eaa5a5703f9e49cbc69f607df809d569708fa3436bd

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This is an archival English collection and public-domain translation shelf, not a Good Works Translation.

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Compiled from the source witnesses listed above.

Compiled and formatted for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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