Excerpt from Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of Literature, With an Introduction Arly in the year 1908 the Council of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom decided to commemorate the Tercentenary of the birth of John Milton by a series of popular lectures to be delivered in the autumn of that year by Fellows of the Society. In publishing those lectures in the present volume the Council desires to express its thanks to the Fellows Who responded to its invitation to deliver them; also to Dr. Williamson for his Notes on the Illustrations and for the loan of three portrait blocks, and to Professor Dowden for the likeness of Milton Which forms the frontispiece. 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.