John Milton

JOHN T. SHAWCROSS

Introduction; Part 1 PERSONAL STATEMENTS AND CONTEMPORARY EVALUATIONS; Chapter 1 1. Early writing preferences; Chapter 2 2. The sacred poet and the ‘Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity’; Chapter 3 3. Translation of Psalm 114 into Greek; Chapter 4 4. Hope for immortality; Chapter 5 5. Faith in literary ability; Chapter 6 Wotton on ‘Comus’; Chapter 7 7. Subject for poetic work; Chapter 8 8. Subject for poetic work; Chapter 9 9. Poetic plans; Chapter 10 10. The might of the pen; Chapter 11 11. Of Education and the place of writing in its plan; Chapter 12 12. Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Chapter 13 13. Salsilli on Milton; Chapter 14 14. Manso on Milton; Chapter 15 15. Dati on Milton; Chapter 16 16. His Poems; Chapter 17 17. Writing activities in the 1640s; Chapter 18 18. The First Defense; Chapter 19 19. Aim in De Doctrina Christiana before; Chapter 20 20. Anonymous attack onThe Readie and Easie Way; Chapter 21 21. Verse of Paradise Lost; Chapter 22 22. The nature of tragedy; Chapter 23 23. Butler on Milton; Chapter 24 24. Leigh on the antiprelatical tracts; Chapter 25 25. Marvell in defence of Milton; Chapter 26 26. Marvell on Paradise Lost; Chapter 27 27. Lee on Paradise Lost; Part 2 FURTHER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENT; Chapter 28 28. Phillips's notice of his uncle; Chapter 29 29. Ellwood's ‘Epitaph on Milton’; Chapter 30 30. Aubrey's notes for a Life; Chapter 31 31. F.C. on Paradise Lost; Chapter 32 32. Pettit on Milton's advancement of papal aims; Chapter 33 33. Roscommon on Paradise Lost; Chapter 34 34. Dryden on Paradise Lost; Chapter 35 35. Skinner on Milton; Chapter 36 36. Winstanley's notice; Chapter 37 37. Dryden's ‘Epigram’; Chapter 38 38. Comment on Milton; Chapter 39 39. Dennis on rhyme; Chapter 40 40. Preston on Milton's fame; Chapter 41 41. Dryden on Paradise Lost; Chapter 42 42. Phillips on various works; Chapter 43 43. Addison on Paradise Lost; Chapter 44 44. Gildon's vindication of Paradise Lost; Chapter 45 Hume's annotations of Paradise Lost; Chapter 46 46. Dennis on Milton's Devils; Chapter 47 47. Wesley on heroic poetry; Chapter 48 48. Bayle's notice; Chapter 49 49. Leslie on Milton's theology; Chapter 50 50. Toland on various poems; Chapter 51 51. Yalden on Milton's prose; Part 3 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENT TO BENTLEY'S EDITION OF ‘PARADISE LOST’; Chapter 52 52. Oldys on Milton; Chapter 53 53. Dennis on Milton's sublimity; Chapter 54 54. Dennis on Paradise Lost; Chapter 55 55. Trumbull on minor poems; Chapter 56 56. Defoe on Paradise Lost; Chapter 57 57. Watts's tribute to Milton; Chapter 58 58. Swift on Milton's divorce tracts; Chapter 59 59. Addison and Steele onParadise Lost; Chapter 60 60. Anonymous statement of Milton's sublimity; Chapter 61 61. Shaftesbury on heroic poetry; Chapter 62 62. Defoe on the two epics; Chapter 63 63. Addison s papers on Paradise Lost; Chapter 64 64. Addison on imagination and Paradise Lost; Chapter 65 65. Welsted on Milton's sublimity; Chapter 66 66. Ellwood on the composition of the epics; Chapter 67 67. Eusden on reading Addison; Chapter 68 68. Hughes on the allegory of sin and death; Chapter 69 69. Blackmore on epic poetry; Chapter 70 70. Atterbury on Milton; Chapter 71 71. Gildon on heroic poetry; Chapter 72 72. Dennis on Milton's reputation; Chapter 73 73: Gildon on Milton's immortality; Chapter 74 74. Dennis on Paradise Lost; Chapter 75 75. Atterbury on the ‘Original MS.’, and Samson Agonistes; Chapter 76 76. Welsted on Milton's language; Chapter 77 77. Fenton on Paradise Lost; Chapter 78 78. Burnet's Notice; Chapter 79 79. Voltaire on Milton; Chapter 80 80. Lyttleton on Milton; Chapter 81 81. Salmon on Abdiel; Chapter 82 82. Dennis on Milton's poetical fire; Chapter 83 83. Clarke on defects in Paradise Lost;