Excerpt from The Early Popularity of Milton's Minor Poems: A Dissertation It may be proper first to examine the usual form in which these poems were printed. The customary view, I believe, is that they were printed as a necessary part Of Milton's Poetical Works, and rarely except as such. At first sight this seems an entirely just View. In the period under consideration were printed eighteen separate editions of Paradise Lost, and the poem appeared also eleven times in editions classed by Dr. Good as Poetical Works. 1 The ...
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Excerpt from The Early Popularity of Milton's Minor Poems: A Dissertation It may be proper first to examine the usual form in which these poems were printed. The customary view, I believe, is that they were printed as a necessary part Of Milton's Poetical Works, and rarely except as such. At first sight this seems an entirely just View. In the period under consideration were printed eighteen separate editions of Paradise Lost, and the poem appeared also eleven times in editions classed by Dr. Good as Poetical Works. 1 The more important of the minor poems, aside from these eleven inevitable printings, were issued, variously grouped, on an average of five times each when clearly independent of the Poetical Works. The following table, imitatively based on Dr. Good's results,2 may be Of assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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