H. C. Beeching, On the Prosody of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes,
1889;
Charles Dexter Cleveland's Complete Concordance to Milton's Poetical
Works, 1867;
William T. Dobson's The Classic Poets, their Lives and Times etc., 1879;
George Gilfillan's Second Gallery of Literary Portraits, 1852, pp. 15-16;
Samuel Johnson's Milton (see his Lives of the Poets, ed. by Mrs. Alexander
Napier, 1890, vol. i.);
Thomas Babington Macaulay's Milton (see his Critical and Historical
Essays, ed, 10, 1860, vol. i.);
David Masson's Introduction to Paradise Regained (see his ed. of Milton's
Poetical works, 1893, vol. iii., pp. 1-14);
David Masson's Life of Milton, 1880, vol. vi., 651-661;
Richard Meadowcourt's Critique on Milton's Paradise Regained, 1732;
A Critical Dissertation on Paradise Regained with Notes, 2d ed. 1748;
John Robert Seeley's Milton (see his Roman Imperialism and other Lectures
and Essays, 1871, pp. 152-157);
Mark Pattison's John Milton (English Men of Letters Series), n. d.;
H. A. Taine's History of English Literature, Tr. by H. Van Laun, 1877,
vol. ii.
THE STORY OF PARADISE REGAINED.
After the expulsion from Paradise of Adam and Eve, Satan and his followers
did not return to Hell, but remained on earth, the fallen angels becoming
the evil gods of various idolatrous nations and Satan engaging in every
kind of evildoing which he knew would vex the Powers of Heaven.
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