JOHN MILTON

A SHORT STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS

JOHN MILTON

A SHORT STUDY OF HIS LIFE

AND WORKS

BY

WILLIAM P. TRENT

"

AUTHOR OF WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS,' "SOUTHERN

STATESMEN OF THE OLD RÉGIME,"

"ROBERT E. LEE," ETC.

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1899

All rights reserved

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

COPYRIGHT, 1899,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith

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 Enscribed

IN FRIENDSHIP AND GRATITUDE