Idylls of the King, Tennyson's, [193] Iliad, The, [242] Il Penseroso, [22], [62], [184]-85, [195], [245]

Johnson, Samuel, [22], [31], [35], [57]-8, [127], [149], [175], [216], [224]-25, [229]-30, [239], [246]-47, [251] Jonson, Ben, [18], [27], [185]-86, [198], [218]-19 Juvenal, [202]

Keats, John, [227] King, Edward, [34] Knox, John, [142]

Lactantius, [101]-102 L'Allegro, [22], [24]-5, [27], [195], [245] Lamb, Charles, [198] Landor, Walter Savage, [137], [212]-13, [239] Langbaine, Gerard, [241] Latinisms, Milton's, [208]-10 Laud, Archbishop, [21], [23] Laudian movement, [91] Lawrence, Henry, [8] Lear, King, Shakespeare's, [223]-24 Leonidas, Glover's, [243] Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, [224] Lestrange, Sir Roger, [246] Licensing Act, [6] Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, Winstanley's, [241] Lives of the Poets, Johnson's, [247] Love and Honour, Shenstone's, [243] Lucretius, [238] Lycidas, [23]-4, [33], [57], [63], [213], [235], [246] Lydgate, John, [255] Lyttelton, Lord, [243]

Macbeth, Shakespeare's, [16], [118], [122], [229] Mackenzie, Sir George, [206] Malherbe, Chrétien Guillaume de, [205] Mallet, David, [243] Mammon, [140], [172] Manoa, [51] Manso, [88] Marlowe, Christopher, [190] Marot, Clement, [173] Marvell, Andrew, [67], [73], [162], [256] Masson, Professor David, [133] Meredith, George, [118] Metaphors, Milton's use of, [13]-14, [213], [234] Michael, [97], [129], [135], [156]-57, [167], [253] "Miltonics," the, [245] Miracle plays, [101] Moloch, [140], [254] Monstrous Regiment of Women, Knox's, [142] Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, [57] Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de, [62] More, Henry, [227] More, Sir Thomas, [57], [69] Morus, Alexander, [70] Moryson, Fynes, [15]

Nativity, Ode on the Morning of Christ's, [181], [199] Nicodemus, Apocryphal Gospel of, [164] Night Thoughts, Young's, [243] Nightingale, Sonnet to the, [30]

Occleve, Thomas, [255] Odes, Gray's, [238] Olaus Magnus, [100] Old Wives' Tale, Peele's, [185] Original Poems, Dr. Joseph Beaumont's, [176] Ovid, [206], [208]

Paradise Lost, [28], [32], [45], [52], [58], [72]-3, [79], [81] seq., [122]-24, [127], [133], [140], [143], [150], [153], [158]-64, [168], [176], [179], [188], [191], [195], [206], [208], [210], [213]-14, [217], [223]-24, [235], [237], [239]-42, [245], [252], [254], [256] Characters of, [132]-69 Chronology of, [110]-11 Cosmography of, [107]-10 Criticisms of, by Addison, [157]-58 Bentley, [157] Coleridge, [127], [151], [173] De Quincey, [82], [103], [120], [192] Dryden, [240] Johnson, [127], [149], [175] Landor, [137], [212]-13, [239] Pattison, [83], [101] Pope, [141] Voltaire, [84] Descriptive scenes in, [120]-22, [155]-58, [225]-26 Sources of, [18], [95], [106] Theme of, [81]-9, [91]-4, [97]-106, [127]-28 Theology of, [85]-7, [126]-27, [128]-32 Verse of, [179] seq., [191]-98 Paradise Regained, [86], [120], [146]-47, [158]-59, [161], [163], [211], [228] Parker, Samuel, [67] Parliament, the Long, [56], [140] Passion, The, [181] Pattison, Mark, [54], [83], [101] Peele, George, [185], [190] Philips, John, [242], [244] Phillips, Edward, [160] Phillips, Lives of Edward and John, Godwin's, [185] Philosophical poetry, [227] Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's, [156] Pitt, Christopher, [242] Platonick Song of the Soul, More's, [227] Pleasures of the Imagination, Akenside's, [243] Pleasures of Melancholy, The, Warton's, [243], [245] Plutarch, [59] Poetics, Boileau's, [178] Pope, Alexander, [141], [203], [242], [247], [251]-52, [254] Powell, Mary, [7], [54], [142], [260] Power of Harmony, The, Cooper's, [243] Prelatical controversy, [70] Proper names, poetical use of, by Milton, [235]-36 Prynne, William, [147] Psyche, Beaumont's, [176] Puns, Milton's, [210]-12 Puritanism, Milton's, [28]-31, [92], [145], [162], [263]

Quakerism, [29], [61] Quarles, Francis, [147]

Rape of the Lock, The, Pope's, [232] Raphael, [97], [111], [115], [130], [144], [146], [202], [208], [228], [237], [248]-49 Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty, [50] Reformation in England, Of, [42], [62], [91] Rehearsal Transposed, The, Marvell's, [67] Religious poetry, [173]-77 Renaissance, the, [19], [59], [74], [173] Republicanism, [66] Restoration, the, [26], [35]-8, [68] Richard II., Shakespeare's, [187] Richard III., Shakespeare's, [16] Rogers, Samuel, [214] Romanticism, [55], [220], [226], [229], [233], [245] Romaunt of the Rose, [238] Rowe, Nicholas, [240] Ruined Abbey, The, Shenstone's, [243] Rymer, Thomas, [241]