enery 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;