EDITED,

WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES,
AND AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH,

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,

VOLUME II.

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874.

[All Rights reserved.]

8

1265

58-2

Sept. 9, 1889.

March Bequest,

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PARADISE REGAINED:-

INTRODUCTION

TEXT OF THE POEM.

The First Book

The Second Book

The Third Book

The Fourth Book

SAMSON AGONISTES :-

INTRODUCTION

The Author's Preface: "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called Tragedy."

The Argument and the Persons

TEXT OF THE POEM

MINOR POEMS :-

GENERAL INTRODUCTION, OR CHRONOLOGY OF THE POEMS: with an

account of the Editions of 1645 and 1673, and of the Cambridge Volume

of Milton MSS.

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE POEMS SEVERALLY

Part I.—Introductions to the English Poems: -Paraphrases on Psalms

CXIV. and CXXXVI., pp. 186, 188; On the Death of a Fair Infant,

pp. 188, 189; At a Vacation Exercise in the College, pp. 190—196;

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, pp. 196, 197; Upon the Circum-

cision, p. 197; The Passion, p. 197; On Time, pp. 197, 198; At a

Solemn Music, p. 198; Song on May Morning, p. 198; On Shake-

speare, pp. 198, 199; On the University Carrier, pp. 199–202; An

Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester, pp. 202–204; L'Allegro

and Il Penseroso, pp. 205-209; Arcades, pp. 210-226; Comus,

pp. 227-260; Lycidas, pp. 261–276; Sonnets and Kindred Pieces,

Pp. 276—309 (I. To the Nightingale, pp. 281, 282; II. On His

having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three, pp. 282, 283; Five Italian

Sonnets with an accompanying Canzone, pp. 283-285; VIII. When

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