OF

JOHN MILTON:

EDITED,

WITH MEMOIR, INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND

AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH

AND VERSIFICATION,

BY

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

HISTORIOGRAPHER ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND,

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

VOL. II.

PARADISE LOST.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

1896

All rights reserved

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST :-

I. Earliest Editions of the Poem

II. Origin of the Poem and History of its Com-

position.

III. Scheme and Meaning of the Poem

COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO THE SECOND

Book III.

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