The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 1 Of 2 English and Latin, Edited, with a Bibliographical Introduction, Life of Milton, and an Analysis of Addison's Criticism on Paradise Lost

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 1 of 2: English and Latin, Edited, With a Bibliographical Introduction, Life of Milton, and an Analysis of Addison's Criticism on Paradise Lost

The Aldine Milton in the original series was edited by the Rev. John Mitford just sixty years ago, in three volumes, with a somewhat lengthy Life, and with a few footnotes to the poems.

The present edition is an entirely new work, and the chief object aimed at has been to give as correct a Text as possible the poems are arranged in chronological order, and the greatest care has been taken to see that the read ings are correct and the punctuation accurate.

Notes have been dispensed with, and the work thereby produced in a more convenient form in two volumes; and a student can go for his notes either to some of the editions referred to in the Introduction or to specially annotated Selections.

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