CONTENTS.

PARADISE LOST :-

INTRODUCTION :

I. Earliest Editions of the Poem

II. Origin of the Poem and History of us Composition

III. Scheme and Meaning of the Poem.

Commendatory Verses, prefixed to the Second Edition

Author's Preface on The Verse"

66

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

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE POEMS SEVERALLY :-

Part I. Introductions to the English Poems

Part II. Introductions to the Latin Poems

Moseley's Preface to the Edition of 1645

397

403

TEXT OF THE POEMS.

Part I. The English Poems :-

Paraphrases on Psalms CXIV and CXXXVI

477

On the Death of a Fair Infant dying of a Cough

480

Comus; a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:.

Lawes's Dedication of the Edition of 1637.

511

511

Sir Henry Wotton's Commendatory Letter of 1638.

511

Sonnet II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three

513

514

538

543

Sonnet XIV. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine

Sonnet XVIII. On the late Massacre in Piedmont .

550

Sonnet XXIII. To the Memory of his Second Wife

Translations.

552

Elegia VII.

Elegia II.

Elegia III. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.

Elegia IV. Ad Thomam Junium, Præceptorum suum

Elegia V. In Adventum Veris

Elegia VI. Ad Carolum Diodatum, ruri commorantem

582

In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis

584

584

586

5.89

Anno ætatis undevigesimo

592

In Proditionem Bombardicam.

5941

In Eandem.

In Eandem

597

597

In Eandem.

In Inventorem Bombardæ

Ad Leonoram Romæ Canentem

597

598

598

598