PennSound Classics

John Richetti reads selected poems of John Milton

Studio 111 Session, University of Pennsylvania, January 23, 2012; and Wexler Studio, Kelly Writers House, October 25, 2016

reading from the Merritt Hughes edition

1. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity [1629] (pp. 43-50) (11:30): MP3
2. L'Allegro [1631] (pp. 68-72) (7:03): MP3
3. Il Penseroso [1631] (pp. 72-76) (8:43): MP3
4. Lycidas [1637] (pp. 120-25) (11:30): MP3
5. On Shakespeare [1630] (pp. 63-4) (1:01): MP3
6. On the University Carrier [1631] (p. 64) (1:15):
7. Sonnet 1: O Nightingale [1630] (p. 53) (1:03): MP3
8. Sonnet 7: How soon hath Time [1632] (pp. 76-77) (0:57): MP3
9. Sonnet 11: On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises [1646] (p. 143) (1:05): MP3
10. Sonnet 16: To the Lord General Cromwell [1652] (pp. 160-61) (1:06): MP3
11. Sonnet 18: On the Late Massacre in Piemont [1655] (pp. 167-68) (0:57): MP3
12. Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent [1652] (p. 168) (1:01): MP3
13. Sonnet 23: Methought I saw my late espoused saint [1658] (pp. 170-71) (0:59: MP3

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