an Mercury_, 240
Augustine, Saint, 112

Bacon, Francis, 1, 198
Barclay, John, 57
Baxter, Richard, 20-21
Beaumont, Francis, 218
Beaumont, Joseph, 176
Beelzebub, 140
Belial, 140, 211-12, 239, 259
Bembo, Pietro, 46
Bentley, Richard, 157-58
_Biron, Tragedy of_, Chapman's, 204
Blair, Robert, 243
_Blenheim_, Lyttelton's, 243
_Blenheim_, Philips's, 242
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, 241
Bodley, Sir Thomas, 17
Boileau, Nicolas, 178
_Book of Sports_, 25
Bossu, Charles, 158
Boyd, Zachary, 175
Brice, Thomas, 173
Broome, William, 242
Bunyan, John, 147, 155
Burke, Edmund, 40, 47, 77, 134
Burnet, Dr. Thomas, 84
Butler, Samuel, 44, 72, 246
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 233
Bysshe, 241

Caedmon, 106
Cambridge, Milton at, 13
Camden, William, 61
Carew, Thomas, 197
Catalogues, Milton's Epic, 236
Catullus, 206
Chapman, George, 204, 218
Charlemagne, 60
Charles I., 23
Charles II., Court of, 26, 259
_Chase, The_, Somerville's, 242
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 145, 236, 255
Chesterfield, Lord, 133
_Christian Doctrine, Treatise of_, 43, 113, 140
Church of England, 17, 19-21, 24, 34
_City Match, The_, Mayne's, 189
Classic School, 220, 226
Cleveland, John, 72
_Clovis_, Saint-Sorlin's, 178-79, 205
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 127, 151, 173, 214, 238, 251
_Comus_, 28, 93, 162-63, 182, 184, 191, 199, 235, 245
Congreve, William, 147, 225
Cooper, John Gilbert, 243
_Coriolanus_, Shakespeare's, 122
Court lyrists, 259-63
Cowley, Abraham, 72, 177, 206, 219, 231, 242
Crabbe, George, 223
Crashaw, Richard, 106, 256
Cromwell, Oliver, 62-3, 65, 135
_Cyder_, Philips's, 242
_Cynthia, Hymn to_, Jonson's, 185
Dalila, 51, 149, 209-10
Daniel, Samuel, 218
Davenant, William, 177, 180, 206, 219
_Davideis_, Cowley's, 177-78, 231
_De Re Poetica_, Blount's, 241
_Death of a Fair Infant, On the_, 181-82
_Defence of the People of England_, 47, 74, 131
_Defence of the People of England, Second_, 34, 47, 63
Dekker, John, 218
Denham, John, 206, 219
De Quincey, Thomas, 82, 103, 120, 192
_Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure_, Marvell's, 162
_Discourse of Satire_, Dryden's, 202, 205
_Divine Institutes_ of Lactantius, 101
_Divine Weekes and Workes_, Du Bartas's, 18
_Divorce Pamphlets_, 16, 19, 48, 52, 54, 69, 75, 248, 259
Donne, John, 181, 183
Dramatists, influence of, on Milton, 15-16, 185-87
Drayton, Michael, 27, 174, 218
Dryden, John, 10, 17, 133, 180, 202, 203, 206-208, 219, 240-41, 246-47,
256
Du Bartas, Guillaume, 18, 237
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