THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON

EDITED

WITH MEMoir, introductions, notes, AND

AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH

And VerSIFICATION

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A. LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

VOL. III.

GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH AND VERSIFICATION

AND NOTES TO THE POEMS

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1890

All rights reserved

VI. Milton's Versification and his place in the History of

English Verse

NOTES TO THE POEMS :-

PREFACE TO THE NOTES

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PART I.-NOTES TO THE ENGLISH POEMS

Paraphrases on Psalms cxiv. and cxxxvi., pp. 145-147; On the

Death of a Fair Infant, pp. 147-148; At a Vacation Exercise in

the College, pp. 149-153; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,

pp. 153-160; The Passion, pp. 160-162; Song on May Morn-

ing, p. 162; On Shakespeare, pp. 162-163; On the University

Carrier, p. 164; Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester, pp.

164-166; L'Allegro, pp. 166-179; Il Penseroso, pp. 179-191;

Arcades, pp. 191-197; At a Solemn Music, pp. 197-199; On

Time, pp. 199-200; Upon the Circumcision, p. 200; Comus, pp.

200-253; Lycidas, pp. 254-276; The Sonnets and Kindred

Pieces, pp. 276-295; Translations, pp. 296-297.

PART II.-NOTES TO THE LATIN POEMS

ELEGIARUM LIBER :-De Auctore Testimonia, pp. 298-299; Elegia

Prima, pp. 299-301; Elegia Secunda, pp. 302-303; Elegia Tertia,

pp. 303-305; Elegia Quarta, pp. 305-314; Elegia Quinta, pp.

314-317; Elegia Sexta, pp. 318-321; Elegia Septima, pp. 321-

324; Epigrammata, pp. 324-325.-SYLVARUM LIBER :-In

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NOTES continued—

obitum Procancellarii Medici, pp. 326-328; In Quintum Novem-

bris, pp. 328-335; In obitum Præsulis Eliensis, pp. 335-338;

Naturam non pati Senium, pp. 338-340; De Idea Platonica, pp.

341-342; Ad Patrem, pp. 342-344; Greek Verses, pp. 345-346;

Ad Salsillum, pp. 346-348; Mansus, pp. 348-352; Epitaphium

Damonis, pp. 352-363; Ad Joannem Rousium, pp. 363-371;

Epigrams on Salmasius, p. 371.

Supplementary Note to the Latin Poems, with two re-

covered Scraps of Latin Verse .

NOTES TO PARADISE LOST:

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