Poems Written During the Civil War and the Protectorate 1642-1658 by John Milton | Full Audio Book

Poems Written During the Civil War and the Protectorate 1642-1658 by John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Genre(s): Lyric, Political Science

Read by: Alan Mapstone in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - When the Assault was Intended to the City
00:02:01 - 02 - To a Virtuous Young Lady
00:03:34 - 03 - To the Lady Margaret Ley
00:05:01 - 04 - On the Detraction which Followed Upon my Writing Certain Treatises
00:06:39 - 05 - On the Same
00:08:09 - 06 - On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
00:10:10 - 07 - To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs
00:11:43 - 08 - On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646
00:13:31 - 09 - On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
00:15:06 - 10 - To the Lord General Cromwell, on the Proposals of Certain Ministers at the Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel
00:16:45 - 11 - To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
00:18:15 - 12 - On the late Massacre in Piemont
00:19:44 - 13 - On his Blindness
00:21:12 - 14 - To Mr. Lawrence
00:22:44 - 15 - To Cyriack Skinner
00:24:13 - 16 - To the Same
00:25:43 - 17 - On his Deceased Wife

The English poet John Milton supported the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War and publicly defended the execution of King Charles I. He held the post of Secretary for Foreign Tongues in the government of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. The relatively few poems he wrote during this period often reference the political situation of the time.(Summary by Alan Mapstone)