OF JOHN MILTON: EDITED, WITH MEMOIR, INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH AND VERSIFICATION, BY DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D., HISTORIOGRAPHER ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. VOL. I. THE MINOR POEMS. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1893. All rights reserved. 14483, 31.10 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY IN MEMORY OF LIONEL de JERSEY HARVARD CLASS OF 1915 December 5, 1932 (3rd) First Edition 1874, "Golden Treasury Series," 2 vols. (Pott 8vo) Reprinted 1893 (Globe 8vo) W PREFACE IN 1882. THE Golden Treasury Edition of Milton's Poetical Works having been for some time out of print, the present edition is substituted, as perhaps more conveniently intermediate in form between the Globe Edition and the large Cambridge Edition. Certain other changes have been permitted by this change of form. The chronological arrangement of the Poems has been adopted, as having some advantages. Volume I. contains all the Minor Poems; Volume II. contains Paradise Lost by itself; and Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes follow in Volume III. The Editorial matter is also considerably more extensive and varied than in the Golden Treasury Edition. The Memoir has been revised, and in part rewritten; the Introductions have received some correction; a substantial addition, likely to be useful to students, is inserted in Volume III., in the shape of an abridgment of an Essay on Milton's English and Versification, hitherto accessible only in the Cambridge Edition; and the Notes are more numerous and minute, and include the Latin Poems as well as the English. It is hoped that the distribution of |