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. II.

PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED, SAMSON AGONISTES

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, Bio-

GRAPHICAL, AND EXPOSITORY :-

PAGE

5

40

Section 1. First and Subsequent Editions of the Poem

Section II. Conception of the Poem and History of its Com-

position

Section III. Scheme and Meaning of the Poem .

Section IV. On the Question of Milton's Indebtedness in

Paradise Lost'to Particular Modern Authors

77

I 20

COMMENDATORY VERSES BY SAMUEL BARROW AND ANDREW

MARVELL PREFIXED TO THE SECOND EDITION .

167

The Author's Preface: Of that sort of Dramatic Poem

called Tragedy

The Argument and the Persons

587

589