Excerpt from Milton's Comus, Lycidas, and Other Poems, and Matthew Arnold's Address on Milton: Edited With Introduction and Notes by Samuel Edward Allen, A. M The text contains several of Milton's poems not in the college entrance requirements. The teacher should encourage his pupils to read them, as well as others not given here. All the poems should be read once or twice Without reference to the notes, and simply for the sake of understanding them in general and enjoying them. The Lady Alice was fourteen when she acted her part in Camus; her brothers were younger; and they had no annotated edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.