CONTENTS.

PARADISE LOST :-

INTRODUCTION:

1. Earliest Editions of the Poem.

II. Origin of the Poem and History of its Composition.

III. Scheme and Meaning of the Poem .

Commendatory Verses, prefixed to the Second Edition

Author's Preface on "The Verse"

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

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

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

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

Lawes's Dedication of the Edition of 1637.

Sir Henry Wotton's Commendatory Letter of 1638.

Ellegy to

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

Sonnet VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City

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Sonnet IX. To a Lady.

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Sonnet X. To the Lady Margaret Ley

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Sonnet XI. On the Detraction which followed upon my writing

Psalm LXXX.

Sonnet XXI. To Cyriack Skinner

Sonnet XXII. To the Same

Sonnet XXIII. To the Memory of his Second Wife

Translations.

The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I.

Nine of the Psalms done into Metre, 1648

Elegia V.

In Adventum Veris

gia IV. Ad Thomam Junium, Præceptorum suum

Elegia II. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis

Elegia III. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.

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In Eandem.

In Inventorem Bombardæ

Ad Leonoram Romæ Canentem

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