INDEX

[For the following Index I am indebted to the kindness of three of my pupils, Miss F. Marston, Miss E. L. Morice, and Miss D. E. Yates.]

Abdiel, 72, 138-39, 156, 211

Abstract terms, Milton's use of, 227-31

Adam, 32, 35, 54, 64, 82-4, 87, 92, 95-6, 105, 112, 115, 122, 141-45, 148-50, 154-57, 160, 207, 222, 237, 248-50, 261

Adamo, 95

Addison, Joseph, 157-58, 206, 218, 242

Æneid, Virgil's, 158

Akenside, Mark, 243

Allegorical figures, Milton's, 237-38

Amyntor and Theodora, Mallet's, 243

Andreini, 95-7, 104, 106

Angelo, Michael, 88

Animadversions on the Remonstrant's Defence against Smectymnuus, 217

Apology for Smectymnuus, 16, 69, 71, 74

Arbuthnot, John, 218

Areopagitica, 43, 46, 48, 49, 52, 56-7, 65, 76, 180

Arianism, 86

Ariosto, 171

Armstrong, John, 242

Art of English Poetry, Bysshe's, 241

Art of Preserving Health, The, Armstrong's, 242

Arthurian Legend, 23, 60, 89-90

Ascension Day, Vaughan's, 257

Athanasian Creed, 86

Athenian Mercury, 240

Augustine, Saint, 112

Bacon, Francis, 1, 198

Barclay, John, 57

Baxter, Richard, 20-21

Beaumont, Francis, 218

Beaumont, Joseph, 176

Beelzebub, 140

Belial, 140, 211-12, 239, 259

Bembo, Pietro, 46

Bentley, Richard, 157-58

Biron, Tragedy of, Chapman's, 204

Blair, Robert, 243

Blenheim, Lyttelton's, 243

Blenheim, Philips's, 242

Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, 241

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 17

Boileau, Nicolas, 178

Book of Sports, 25

Bossu, Charles, 158

Boyd, Zachary, 175

Brice, Thomas, 173

Broome, William, 242

Bunyan, John, 147, 155

Burke, Edmund, 40, 47, 77, 134

Burnet, Dr. Thomas, 84

Butler, Samuel, 44, 72, 246

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 233

Bysshe, 241

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Cædmon, 106

Cambridge, Milton at, 13

Camden, William, 61

Carew, Thomas, 197

Catalogues, Milton's Epic, 236

Catullus, 206

Chapman, George, 204, 218

Charlemagne, 60

Charles I., 23

Charles II., Court of, 26, 259

Chase, The, Somerville's, 242

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 145, 236, 255

Chesterfield, Lord, 133

Christian Doctrine, Treatise of, 43, 113, 140

Church of England, 17, 19-21, 24, 34

City Match, The, Mayne's, 189

Classic School, 220, 226

Cleveland, John, 72

Clovis, Saint-Sorlin's, 178-79, 205

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 127, 151, 173, 214, 238, 251

Comus, 28, 93, 162-63, 182, 184, 191, 199, 235, 245

Congreve, William, 147, 225

Cooper, John Gilbert, 243

Coriolanus, Shakespeare's, 122

Court lyrists, 259-63

Cowley, Abraham, 72, 177, 206, 219, 231, 242

Crabbe, George, 223

Crashaw, Richard, 106, 256

Cromwell, Oliver, 62-3, 65, 135

Cyder, Philips's, 242

Cynthia, Hymn to, Jonson's, 185

Dalila, 51, 149, 209-10

Daniel, Samuel, 218

Davenant, William, 177, 180, 206, 219

Davideis, Cowley's, 177-78, 231

De Re Poetica, Blount's, 241

Death of a Fair Infant, On the, 181-82

Defence of the People of England, 47, 74, 131

Defence of the People of England, Second, 34, 47, 63

Dekker, John, 218

Denham, John, 206, 219

De Quincey, Thomas, 82, 103, 120, 192

Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure, Marvell's, 162

Discourse of Satire, Dryden's, 202, 205

Divine Institutes of Lactantius, 101

Divine Weekes and Workes, Du Bartas's, 18

Divorce Pamphlets, 16, 19, 48, 52, 54, 69, 75, 248, 259

Donne, John, 181, 183

Dramatists, influence of, on Milton, 15-16, 185-87

Drayton, Michael, 27, 174, 218

Dryden, John, 10, 17, 133, 180, 202, 203, 206-208, 219, 240-41, 246-47, 256

Du Bartas, Guillaume, 18, 237

Dunciad, Pope's, 251

Dyer, John, 242, 245

Ecclesiastical Pamphlets, 49

Ecclesiastical Polity, Hooker's, 103

Economy, Shenstone's, 243

Economy of Love, The, Armstrong's, 242

Education, Of, 48-9

Eighteenth-century poetry, 233;

influence of Milton on, 241 seq.

Eikonoklastes, 16, 67

Elizabethan Poetry, 116, 173-75, 186-87;

Milton's relation to, 15, 16, 218-20

Ellwood, Thomas, 161, 163

English Dramatick Poets, Account of the, Langbaine's, 241

Epic catalogues, Milton's, 236

Etherege, George, 190

Eve, 27, 54, 83, 87, 92, 96, 112, 121-22, 142-50, 154-59, 160, 204, 206-207, 222, 249-50, 260

Excursion, The, Mallet's, 243

Faerie Queene, Spenser's, 199-200

Fenton, Elijah, 242

Fleece, The, Dyer's, 242

Fletcher, Giles, 106

Fletcher, Phineas, 106

Ford, John, 117

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Gabriel, 72, 129, 135, 154, 239

Galileo, 100

Gay, John, 242

Gibbon, Edward, 138

Glover, Richard, 243

Godwin, William, 185

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 133

Gondibert, Davenant's, 177

Gorboduc, Sackville's, 196

Grainger, James, 242, 244

Grave, The, Blair's, 243

Gray, Thomas, 238, 253-55

Grongar Hill, Dyer's, 245

Hall, John, 71

Hamlet, Shakespeare's, 142

Hampton Court Conference, 17

Handel, 239

Harmonie of the Church, Drayton's, 174

Hazlitt, William, 198

Herbert, George, 174

Herodotus, 100

Herrick, Robert, 21, 256

Hervey, Lord, 203

History of Britain, 60, 143

Hobbes, Thomas, 58, 219

Homer, 171, 206, 220, 234

Homer, Pope's, 251

Hop Garden, The, Smart's, 242

Horace, 202

Horton, 22

Howard, Sir Robert, 180

Hume, Patrick, 240

Hyperion, Keats's, 227

Idylls of the King, Tennyson's, 193

Iliad, The, 242

Il Penseroso, 22, 62, 184-85, 195, 245

Johnson, Samuel, 22, 31, 35, 57-8, 127, 149, 175, 216, 224-25, 229-30, 239, 246-47, 251

Jonson, Ben, 18, 27, 185-86, 198, 218-19

Juvenal, 202

Keats, John, 227

King, Edward, 34

Knox, John, 142

Lactantius, 101-102

L'Allegro, 22, 24-5, 27, 195, 245

Lamb, Charles, 198

Landor, Walter Savage, 137, 212-13, 239

Langbaine, Gerard, 241

Latinisms, Milton's, 208-10

Laud, Archbishop, 21, 23

Laudian movement, 91

Lawrence, Henry, 8

Lear, King, Shakespeare's, 223-24

Leonidas, Glover's, 243

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 224

Lestrange, Sir Roger, 246

Licensing Act, 6

Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, Winstanley's, 241

Lives of the Poets, Johnson's, 247

Love and Honour, Shenstone's, 243

Lucretius, 238

Lycidas, 23-4, 33, 57, 63, 213, 235, 246

Lydgate, John, 255

Lyttelton, Lord, 243

Macbeth, Shakespeare's, 16, 118, 122, 229

Mackenzie, Sir George, 206

Malherbe, Chrétien Guillaume de, 205

Mallet, David, 243

Mammon, 140, 172

Manoa, 51

Manso, 88

Marlowe, Christopher, 190

Marot, Clement, 173

Marvell, Andrew, 67, 73, 162, 256

Masson, Professor David, 133

Meredith, George, 118

Metaphors, Milton's use of, 13-14, 213, 234

Michael, 97, 129, 135, 156-57, 167, 253

"Miltonics," the, 245

Miracle plays, 101

Moloch, 140, 254

Monstrous Regiment of Women, Knox's, 142

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 57

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de, 62

More, Henry, 227

More, Sir Thomas, 57, 69

Morus, Alexander, 70

Moryson, Fynes, 15

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Nativity, Ode on the Morning of Christ's, 181, 199

Nicodemus, Apocryphal Gospel of, 164

Night Thoughts, Young's, 243

Nightingale, Sonnet to the, 30

Occleve, Thomas, 255

Odes, Gray's, 238

Olaus Magnus, 100

Old Wives' Tale, Peele's, 185

Original Poems, Dr. Joseph Beaumont's, 176

Ovid, 206, 208

Paradise Lost, 28, 32, 45, 52, 58, 72-3, 79, 81 seq., 122-24, 127, 133, 140, 143, 150, 153, 158-64, 168, 176, 179, 188, 191, 195, 206, 208, 210, 213-14, 217, 223-24, 235, 237, 239-42, 245, 252, 254, 256

Characters of, 132-69

Chronology of, 110-11

Cosmography of, 107-10

Criticisms of, by Addison, 157-58

Bentley, 157

Coleridge, 127, 151, 173

De Quincey, 82, 103, 120, 192

Dryden, 240

Johnson, 127, 149, 175

Landor, 137, 212-13, 239

Pattison, 83, 101

Pope, 141

Voltaire, 84

Descriptive scenes in, 120-22, 155-58, 225-26

Sources of, 18, 95, 106

Theme of, 81-9, 91-4, 97-106, 127-28

Theology of, 85-7, 126-27, 128-32

Verse of, 179 seq., 191-98

Paradise Regained, 86, 120, 146-47, 158-59, 161, 163, 211, 228

Parker, Samuel, 67

Parliament, the Long, 56, 140

Passion, The, 181

Pattison, Mark, 54, 83, 101

Peele, George, 185, 190

Philips, John, 242, 244

Phillips, Edward, 160

Phillips, Lives of Edward and John, Godwin's, 185

Philosophical poetry, 227

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's, 156

Pitt, Christopher, 242

Platonick Song of the Soul, More's, 227

Pleasures of the Imagination, Akenside's, 243

Pleasures of Melancholy, The, Warton's, 243, 245

Plutarch, 59

Poetics, Boileau's, 178

Pope, Alexander, 141, 203, 242, 247, 251-52, 254

Powell, Mary, 7, 54, 142, 260

Power of Harmony, The, Cooper's, 243

Prelatical controversy, 70

Proper names, poetical use of, by Milton, 235-36

Prynne, William, 147

Psyche, Beaumont's, 176

Puns, Milton's, 210-12

Puritanism, Milton's, 28-31, 92, 145, 162, 263

Quakerism, 29, 61

Quarles, Francis, 147

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Rape of the Lock, The, Pope's, 232

Raphael, 97, 111, 115, 130, 144, 146, 202, 208, 228, 237, 248-49

Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty, 50

Reformation in England, Of, 42, 62, 91

Rehearsal Transposed, The, Marvell's, 67

Religious poetry, 173-77

Renaissance, the, 19, 59, 74, 173

Republicanism, 66

Restoration, the, 26, 35-8, 68

Richard II., Shakespeare's, 187

Richard III., Shakespeare's, 16

Rogers, Samuel, 214

Romanticism, 55, 220, 226, 229, 233, 245

Romaunt of the Rose, 238

Rowe, Nicholas, 240

Ruined Abbey, The, Shenstone's, 243

Rymer, Thomas, 241

Salmasius, 49, 69, 70, 71

Samson Agonistes, 26, 29, 37, 50-1, 79, 143, 146, 158-59, 162, 167, 168, 195-96, 203, 208-10, 241

Satan, 28, 60, 72, 85, 94, 102, 105, 109, 110-11, 129, 130, 132-39, 146, 152, 158, 160, 167, 211-12, 228, 239, 253

Seasons, The, Thomson's, 243, 248, 252

Sedley, Sir Charles, 260

Sejanus, Ben Jonson's, 220

Selden, Thomas, 56

Seneca, 189

Seventeenth-century poetry, 175-77, 256-62;

Milton's relation to, 218-20

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 203

Shakespeare, Lines on, Milton's, 182

Shakespeare, William, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 116, 118, 171, 175, 190, 198, 214, 217, 218, 220, 223, 225, 230, 231, 240, 243, 263

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 233

Shenstone, William, 243

Shirley, James, 219

Short View of the Stage, Collier's, 147

Sidney, Sir Philip, 174

Simile, Milton's use of, 234

Simmons, Samuel, 180

Smart, Christopher, 242

Somerville, William, 242

Sophocles, 70

Southwell, Robert, 174

Spectator, The, Addison's, 241

Spenser, Edmund, 17, 18, 106, 181, 200, 206, 236

Splendid Shilling, The, Philips's, 242

Spratt, Thomas, 219

Steele, Richard, 206, 218

Sternhold, Thomas, 173

Stoicism, 29, 145, 163

Strafford, Earl of, 23

Suckling, Sir John, 147, 188, 256

Sugar Cane, The, Grainger's, 242

Swift, Jonathan, 218

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 93

Sylvester, Thomas, 18, 106

Synod of Dort, 17

Tale of Two Swannes, A, 179

Talmud, The, 87

Tatler, The, Steele's, 206

Tears of Peace, Chapman's, 204

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 193

Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 41

Thomson, James, 243, 248, 252-53

Tillotson, John, 219

Translation of the Eleventh Odyssey, Broome's, 242

Translation of a Story out of the Third Æneid, Addison's, 242

Tudor state system, the, 57

Vacation Exercise, At a, 181

Vaughan, Henry, 256-60

Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's, 148

Virgil, 171, 202-203, 206-207

Voiture, 205

Voltaire, 84

Vondel, Joost van den, 106

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Waller, Edmund, 206, 219, 240-41

Warton, Thomas, 243, 245

West, Sonnet on the Death of Richard, Gray's, 254

Westminster Assembly of Divines, 140

Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, 261-62

Wine, a Poem, Gay's, 242

Winstanley, William, 241

Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's, 25, 144

Wither, George, 195

Wood, Anthony à, 173

Wordsworth, William, 214, 246, 249, 251

Wotton, Sir Henry, 199

Young, Thomas, 12, 243