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 About Milton we hear very little, but his name is mentioned in the opening invocation:—

And afterwards we are told:—

Two other familiar names find pregnant mention.

But the chief parts are played, as before, by shadowy or symbolic personages; of some of whose names, however, a definite interpretation here occurs which will be welcome:—

'The latter part of the first book of Milton,' says Mr. Swinburne,—to whose guidance the reader, desirous of testing his poetic mettle by plunging resolutely through the dark