Mason, C., Milton’s MSS. preserved by, 129

Masson, Prof.  David, his monumental biography of Milton, 14;
  on Milton’s ancestors, ib.;
  on Milton’s college career, 23, 25;
  on the scenery of Horton, 35;
  on date of Divorce pamphlet, 87;
  on date of “Paradise Lost,” 147;
  on money received for “Paradise Lost,” 150;
  on Milton’s cosmogony, 156;
  his description of Chalfont, 173;
  on Milton’s portrait, 189

Milton, Christopher, John Milton’s younger brother, birth of, 16;
  a Royalist, 91;
  a Roman Catholic, and one of James the Second’s judges, 194

Milton, John, the elder, birth, 15;
  a scrivener by profession, ib.;
  musical compositions of, 18;
  retirement to Horton, 33;
  his noble confidence in his son, 37, 45;
  comes to live with his son, 91;
  dies, 98

Milton, John, birth, 11;
  genealogy of, 14;
  birthplace, 16;
  his father, 17;
  his education, 18-27;
  knowledge of Italian, 21;
  at Cambridge, 22-28;
  rusticated, 25;
  his degree, 1629; 25;
  will not enter the church, 29;
  early poems, 32;
  writes “Comus,” 38;
  required incitement to write, 40, 48;
  correctness of his early poems, 42;
  his life at Horton, 44-55;
  his “Comus” and “Arcades,” 44-48;
  his “Lycidas,” 48;
  his mother’s death, 55;
  goes to Italy, 56;
  his Italian friends, 59;
  visits Galileo, 61;
  Italian sonnets, 64;
  educates his nephews, 65;
  elegy to Diodati, 67;
  eighteen years’ poetic silence, 68;
  takes part with the Commonwealth, 68;
  pamphlets on Church government, 72;
  tract on Education, 75;
  “Areopagitica,” 79;
  Italian sonnet, 85;
  his first marriage, 86;
  deserted by his wife, his treatise on Divorce, 87;
  his pupils, 91;
  return of his wife, 96;
  his daughter born, 98;
  becomes Secretary for Foreign Tongues, 102;
  his State papers, 104;
  licenses pamphlets, 105;
  answers “Eikon Basilike,” 108;
  answers Salmasius, 111;
  loses his sight, 114;
  death of his wife, 116;
  reply to Morus, 119;
  his official duties 122;
  his retirement and second marriage, 125;
  projected ninety-nine themes preparatory to “Paradise Lost,” 129;
  wrote chiefly from autumn to spring, 132;
  his views of a republic, 136;
  escapes proscription at Restoration, 139;
  unhappy relations with his daughters, 141;
  third marriage, 143;
  writing “Paradise Lost,” 147-150;
  analysis of his work, 152-172;
  compared with modern poets, 166;
  his indebtedness to earlier poets, 169;
  retires to Chalfont to escape the plague, 173;
  he suffers from the Great Fire, 175;
  his “Paradise Regained,” 177;
  his “Samson Agonistes,” 180-85;
  his later life, 186;
  his later tracts, 188, 190;
  his “History of Britain,” 189;
  his Arian opinions, 192;
  his death, 193;
  his will, 194;
  his widow and daughters, 195;
  estimate of his character, 196