JOHN MILTON

A SHORT STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS

A SHORT STUDY OF HIS LIFE

AND WORKS

BY

WILLIAM P. TRENT

AUTHOR OF "WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS,"

STATESMEN OF the old régime,"

SOUTHERN

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1899

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Norwood Press

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Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

ΤΟ

RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D.

Of the British Museum

WHO TO HIS WELL-DESERVED FAME AS POET, SCHOLAR

AND CRITIC

AND TO HIS POWER AND CHARM AS A FULL MAN

ADDS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING

A LOVER AND JUDICIOUS BIOGRAPHER OF MILTON

This Little Volume is Inscribed

IN FRIENDSHIP AND GRATITUDE