CONTENTS OF VOLUME III

GENERAL ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH AND VERSIFICATION :-

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1. Milton's Vocabulary .

II. Spelling and Pronunciation

III. Peculiarities of Grammatical Inflection

IV. Syntax and Idiom

V. The Punctuation

VI. Milton's Versification and his place in the History of

English Verse

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NOTES TO THE POEMS :-

PREFACE TO THE NOTES

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PART 1.-NOTES TO THE ENGLISH POEMS

Paraphrases on Psalms cxiv. and cxxxvi., pp. 145-147 ; On the

Death of a Fair Infant, pp. 147-148; At a Vacation Exercise in

the College, pp. 149-153; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,

pp. 153-160; The Passion, pp. 160-162 ; Song on May Morn-

ing, p. 162; On Shakespeare, pp. 162-163 ; On the University

Carrier, p. 164; Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester, pp.

164-166 ; L'Allegro, pp. 166-179; Il Penseroso, pp. 179-191 ;

Arcades, pp. 191-197 ; At a Solemn Music, pp. 197-199; On

Time, pp. 199-200; Upon the Circumcision, p. 200 ; Comus, pp.

200-253; Lycidas, pp. 254-276; The Sonnets and Kindred

Pieces, pp. 276-295 ; Translations, pp. 296-297.

PART II.-NOTES TO THE LATIN POEMS

ELEGIARUM LIBER :-De Auctore Testimonia, pp. 298-299; Elegia

Prima, pp. 299-301 ; Elegia Secunda, pp. 302-303 ; Elegia Tertia,

pp. 303-305 ; Elegia Quarta, pp. 305-314; Elegia Quinta, pp.

314-317 ; Elegia Sexta, pp. 318-321 ; Elegia Septima, pp. 321-

324 ; Epigrammata, pp. 324-325.—SYLVARUM LIBER :-In

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obitum Procancellarii Medici, pp. 326-328; In Quintum Novem-

bris, pp. 328-335; In obitum Præsulis Eliensis, pp. 335-338 ;

Naturam non pati Senium, pp. 338-340 ; De Idea Platonica, pp.

341-342 ; Ad Patrem, pp. 342-344 ; Greek Verses, pp. 345-346 ;

Ad Salsillum, pp. 346-348; Mansus, pp. 348-352 ; Epitaphium

Damonis, pp. 352-363; Ad Joannem Rousium, pp. 363-371 ;

Epigrams on Salmasius, p. 371.

Supplementary Note to the Latin Poems, with two re-

covered Scraps of Latin Verse

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