John Milton (1608–1674) Poems, &c. upon several occasions...both English and Latin, &c. compos’d at several times: with a small tractate of education to Mr. Hartlib. (London: Thomas Dring, 1673). Ee.4.16, pp.74-75.
Lycidas is Milton’s pastoral elegy for Edward King, a younger contemporary of his at Christ’s College, who later went on to become a fellow. King’s death by drowning in a shipwreck off the Irish coast in 1637 inspired arguably the most important poem of Milton’s early years. Lycidas was first published in a Cambridge anthology of memorial verses for King, Justa Edwardo King Naufrago (1637), possibly assembled by John Alsop, a fellow of Christ’s. It was later reprinted in Milton’s Poems of 1645 and 1673.
This second edition of Milton's collected shorter poems contains all the works published in 1645/6, together with some additional poems published for the first time, such as ‘On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough’. It also contains a reprinting of Milton’s pamphlet, Of Education.