Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Period of Textual and Religious Criticism; 1: Bentley's Emendations to Paradise Lost; 2: Anonymous Reactions to Bentley's Beliefs; 3: Anonymous Criticism of Bentley; 4: Richardson Jr on an Emendation for Paradise Lost; 5: Meadowcourt on Paradise Regain'd; 6: Theobald on Bentley; 7: Pearce on Bentley's Emendations; 8: Richardson on Milton's Religious Beliefs and Paradise Lost; 9: Jortin on Paradise Regain'd; 10: Warburton on Milton and Toland's ‘Life'; 11: Anonymous Charge of Arianism; 12: Anonymous Comment on Charge of Arianism; 13: Anonymous Reaction to Charge of Arianism; 14: Warburton on Epic; 15: Anonymous Rebuttal Restating Arian Charges; 16: Benson on Milton's Verse; 17: Warburton in Refutation of Bentley; 18: Peck on Milton's Style; 19: Davies' ‘Rhapsody to Milton'; 2: Period of Alleged Plagiarism, Some Analysis, Praise, and Dispraise; 20: Anonymous Analysis of Milton's Imitations of the Classics; 21: Manwaring on Milton's Verse; 22: Harris on Milton's Versification; 23: Paterson on Paradise Lost; 24: Ramsay and Pope on Paradise Lost; 25: Le Blanc on the Majesty of Nature in Paradise Lost; 26: Lauder's First Charges of Plagiarism; 27: Richardson Against Lauder's Allegations; 28: Lauder's Rebuttal; 29: Anonymous Poem on Attempted Depreciation of Milton; 30: Hurd on Milton's Language; 31: John Mason on the Verse of Paradise Lost; 32: John Mason on Milton's Versification; 33: Newton's Notes to Paradise Lost; 34: Johnson on ‘Comus'; 35: Johnson's Preface to the Revision of Lauder's Charges; 36: Lauder's Revised Charges of Plagiarism; 37: Douglas's Vindication of Plagiarism; 38: Johnson's Rebuttal Against Douglas; 39: Lauder's Remarks on Douglas's Vindication; 40: Anonymous Comment on Bentley; 41: Hurd on Milton's Invention; 42: Johnson on Milton's Versification; 43: Johnson on Samson Agonistes; 3: Period of Defence and Analysis; 44: Baretti on Voltaire's ‘Essay'; 45: William Mason on Samson Agonistes; 46: Joseph Warton on Milton's Defects; 47: Shenstone on ‘Lycidas'; 48: Joseph Warton on the ‘Nativity Ode'; 49: William Mason on Milton's Achievement; 50: Burke on Milton's Sublimity; 51: Hume on Milton; 52: Wilkie on Epic Poetry; 53: Blair on the Sublime, the Twin Poems, and Paradise Lost; 54: Lyttelton on Milton; 55: Gray on Milton's Prosody; 56: Gibbon on the Relationship of Religion; 57: Kames on Rhyme and Blank Verse; 58: Webb on Imagery; 59: Hurd on Romance in Milton's Works; 60: Evans on Milton's Literary Use of the Psalms; 4: Period of Praise and Some Detraction; 61: Monboddo on Milton's Greatness of Language; 62: Beattie on Milton's Learning; 63: Richardson on the Companion Poems; 64: Johnson on Cowley and Milton; 65: Johnson on Philips and Milton; 66: Johnson on Milton's Life and Works; 67: Blackburne on Milton's Political Principles; 68: Hayley on Milton's Epic; 69: Thomas Warton on the Minor Poems; 70: Scott on ‘Lycidas'; 71: Cumberland on Samson Agonistes; 72: White on Analogues to Paradise Lost; 73: White on the Sonnets; 74: Hawkins on Johnson's Criticism of Milton; 75: Mickle on Samson Agonistes; 76: Neve on Milton and the Poems; 77: Cowper on Milton's Disinterment; 78: Burney on Milton's Greek; 79: Cowper's Notes on Paradise Lost; 80: Godwin on Satan; 81: Dunster's Notes on Paradise Regain'd; 82: Hayley on the Last Poems; 83: Hayley on the Origin of Paradise Lost; 84: Anonymous Discussion of Milton's Similes; 85: Godwin on Milton's Prose Style; 86: Todd on ‘Comus'; 87: Penn on Samson Agonistes; 88: Green on the Three Major Poems; 89: Dunster on Milton's Use of Du Bartas; 90: Todd on Various Poems; 91: Boyd on the Fallen Angels

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John T. Shawcross