ts, it exhibits its writer's great gifts; and its absolute and
unshrinking sincerity, its half-reluctant utterance of some of the
truest praise ever spoken of Milton, its profound knowledge of the way
in which the human mind approaches both literature and life, will
always preserve it as one of the most interesting criticisms which
Milton has provoked. Johnson's friend, Thomas Warton, in his edition
of the minor poems issued in 1785, led the way to an understanding of
much in Milton to which Johnson and his school were entirely blind.
This movement has continued ever since, and is seen in the immense
influence Milton had upon the poets of the nineteenth century,
especially upon Wordsworth and Keats; an influence of exactly the
opposite sort to that which he exercised with such disastrous effect
upon many poets of the century immediately succeeding his own. It is
also seen in the finer intelligence of the critical studies of his
work. These are far too many to mention here. Among the best are
Hazlitt's Lecture on Shakspeare and Milton in his _Lectures on the
English Poets_; Matthew Arnold's speech at the unveiling of a Milton
memorial, printed in the second series of his _Essays in Criticism_;
Sir Walter Raleigh's volume, _Milton_, published in 1900, and _The
Epic_, by Lascelles Abercrombie, 1914, which is full of fine and
suggestive criticism of Milton. _Milton's Prosody by Robert Bridges,
1901_, is the best study of the metre and scansion of Milton's later
poems, especially of _Paradise Lost_.

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INDEX TO PRINCIPAL PERSONS, PLACES, AND WORKS MENTIONED

Abercrombie, L., 136-7, 253
_Absalom and Achitophel_, 105
_Achilles in Scyros_, 246
Addison, Joseph, 77, 253
_Adonais_, 125
_Ad Patrem_, 39-40.
_Aeneid, The_, 150, 175, 196
Aeschylus, 245
A Kempis, Thomas, 147
Aldersgate Street, 46
_All for Love_, 243
_Allegro, L'_, 41, 70, 93, 99, 106 _et sqq._, 123, 239
Anglesey, Earl of, 72, 82
Annesley, Arthur, 72
Aquinas, Thomas, 157
_Arbuthnot, Epistle to_, 105
_Arcades_, 41, 42
_Arcadia_, 58
_Areopagitica_, 44, 49, 64
Arianism, 204
Ariosto, 153
Aristotle, 86, 200
Arnold Matthew, 164, 253
Arthurian Epic (planned), 45, 148-9
_At a Solemn Music_, 13, 42, 97, 100, 103, 147
Athens, 205-6, 209
Aubrey, John, 29, 252

Barbican, the, 54
Baroni, Leonora, 44-5
Barrow, Samuel, 82
Beeching, Rev. H. C., 251
Bentley, Richard, 250
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