1. Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Introduction, The Romantics on Milton: Formal Essays and Critical Asides (Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970) 13.
2. Samuel Johnson, ‘Milton’, Lives of the English Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905) I, 156.
3. John Keats, The Letters of John Keats, ed. Hyder E. Rollins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958) I, 170.
4. William Hayley, An Essay on Epick Poetry, ed. M. Celeste Williamson (1782; Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Fascimiles and Reprints, 1968) I, 261–4.
5. Qtd. in W. Macneile Dixon, English Epic and Heroic Poetry (London: J. M. Dent, 1912) 2.