{"product_id":"milton-minor-poems","title":"Milton: Kleinere Gedichte","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when a young poet brings cheerful pleasures, stern virtue, and grief into the same world?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Milton: Minor Poems, John Milton tests his range before Paradise Lost. These shorter works bring together the Bible and the poetry of Greece and Rome. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity offers a Christmas hymn, while L'Allegro and Il Penseroso explore cheerful and thoughtful ways of living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection moves from paired moods to virtue under pressure in Comus, a masque that joins poetry, song, and dance. In Lycidas, Milton remembers Edward King, a fellow Cambridge student who drowns in the Irish Sea, and turns mourning into hard questions. The sonnets bring public and private concerns into a tightly shaped form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA young poet's range\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Milton as he tries playful and stern voices, drawing on biblical and classical poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo ways to live\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore cheerful and thoughtful moods through the matched poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVirtue under pressure\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter Comus, where a defence of virtue takes shape through poetry, song, and dance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrief that asks questions\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover how Lycidas makes room for searching questions rather than offering a simple lament.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSonnets with muscular sound\u003c\/strong\u003e – Hear sentences stretch across line endings as Milton gives public and private concerns their weight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who want to meet Milton before his epic, and anyone who enjoys poems rich enough to read aloud slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and let Milton's shorter poems draw you into their changing moods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534615380316,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/01992_en_ebook-front_c26.jpg?v=1792174961","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/milton-kleinere-gedichte","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}