Life of John Milton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 268 pages of information about Life of John Milton.

Life of John Milton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 268 pages of information about Life of John Milton.

Rome, Milton in, 62

Rump, burning of the, 136

S.

St. Bride’s Churchyard, Milton lodges in, 65

St. Giles’s Cripplegate, Milton’s grave in, 194

St. Paul’s school, Milton at, 19

Salmasius, Claudius, his character, 109;
  author of “Defensio Regia,” 111;
  Milton’s controversy with, 112, 114

Samson, Vondel’s, 170

“Samson Agonistes,” 141, 178;
  criticism on, 180-185

Satan, the hero of “Paradise Lost,” 155

Shakespeare, 2;
  Milton’s panegyric on, 33, 38;
  his view of tragedy compared with Milton’s, 183

Shelley, on poetical inspiration, 41;
  his estimate of Milton, 156;
  on tragedy and comedy, 183;
  quoted, 17, 197

Skinner, Cyriack, his loan to Milton, 138

Skinner, David, endeavours to publish “State Letters” and
  “Treatise on Christian Doctrine,” 191

Sonnet, “When the assault was intended to the City,” 84;
  from the Italian, 85;
  on Vaudois Protestants, 124;
  to his second wife, 125;
  to Henry Lawrence, 126;
  inscribed on a window-pane, 175

“State Letters,” 191

Stationers’ Company and Milton, 92

Symmons, S., publisher of “Paradise Lost,” 149, 175

Symonds, Mr. J.A., on metre of “Paradise Lost,” 166

T.

Tennyson, on Milton’s Eden, 162

“Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,” 100

“Tina,” by Antonio Malatesti, 68

Tomkyns, Thomas, licenses “Paradise Lost,” 151;
  and the poems, 178

Tovey, Nathaniel, Milton’s college tutor, 25

Treatise on Christian Doctrine, 190

U.

Ulster Protestants, Milton’s subscription for, 83

V.

Vernon Lee, 57

Vondel, Milton’s indebtedness to, 170

W.

Wakefield, E.G., on the champions of great causes, 135

Wood, Anthony, on Restoration, 133

Woodcock, Katherine, Milton’s second wife, her marriage and death, 125

Wootton, Sir H., on “Comus,” 47

Wordsworth, quoted, 27, 65;
  Milton contrasted with, 41;
  on “Paradise Regained,” 178

Wright, Dr., reminiscence of his visit to Milton, 186

Y.

Young, Thomas, Milton’s private tutor, 14

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

BY

JOHN P. ANDERSON

(British Museum).

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  I. WORKS.

 II.  POETICAL WORKS.

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