_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