E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/threedevilsluthe00mass THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. With Other Essays. by DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. London: Macmillan And Co. 1874. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.] London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill. PREFATORY NOTE. The first five of the following Essays are reprinted from the Author's _Essays Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets_, published in 1856. The present Volume and two similar Volumes issued separately (under the titles "_Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays_" and "_Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770_") may be taken together as forming a new and somewhat enlarged edition of the older book. The addition in the present Volume consists of the last Essay. EDINBURGH: _November 1874_. CONTENTS. PAGE I. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S 1 II. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE 61 III. MILTON'S YOUTH 125 IV. DRYDEN AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION 153 V. DEAN SWIFT 235 VI. HOW LITERATURE MAY ILLUSTRATE HISTORY 301 THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S.[1]