ucluste a ti vecincilii Z8714 OF

JOHN

MILTON:

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,

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SAMSON AGONISTES :-

INTRODUCTION

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

The Argument and the Persons

TEXT OF THE POEM

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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. 190196 ;

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 I 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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