THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS ON EACH POEM; NOTES CRITICAL
AND EXPLANATORY; AN INDEX TO THE SUBJECTS OF

PARADISE LOST;

AND

A Verbal Index to all the Poems.

BY

CHARLES DEXTER CLEVELAND,

AUTHOR OF

THE COMPENDIUMS OF ENGLISH, AMERICAN

AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

"It will not be too much to say, that of all uninspired writings, (if these be uninspired,)
Milton's are the most worthy of profound study by all minds which would know the
creativeness, the splendour, the learning, the eloquence, the wisdom, to which the
human intellect can reach."-Sir Egerton Brydges.

"That fervid Genius, which has cast a sort of shade upon all the other works of
man."-Lord Erskine,

PHILADELPHIA:

FREDERICK LEYPOLDT.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & MARSTON.