CHAPTER XIX.

THE POETRY OF MILTON.

The Blind Poet--Paradise Lost--Milton and Dante--His
Faults--Characteristics of the Age--Paradise Regained--His
Scholarship--His Sonnets--His Death and Fame


CHAPTER XX.

COWLEY, BUTLER, AND WALTON.

Cowley and Milton--Cowley's Life and Works--His Fame--Butler's
Career--Hudibras--His Poverty and Death--Izaak Walton--The Angler; and
Lives--Other Writers


CHAPTER XXI.

DRYDEN, AND THE RESTORED STUARTS.

The Court of Charles II.--Dryden's Early Life--The Death of
Cromwell--The Restoration--Dryden's Tribute--Annus Mirabilis--Absalom
and Achitophel--The Death of Charles--Dryden's Conversion--Dryden's
Fall--His Odes 207