THE

FALL OF JERUSALEM:

A DRAMATIC POEM.

BY THE REV. H. H. MILMAN,

PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1822.

INTRODUCTION.

EVERY reader will at once perceive from the nature of the interest, and from the language, that this drama was neither written with a view to public representation, nor can be adapted to it without being entirely remodelled and rewritten. The critic will draw the same conclusion from certain peculiarities in the composition, irreconcileable with the arrangements of the theatre; the introducing and dismissing of the subordinate characters after a single appearance; and yet appropriating to them some of the most poetical speeches.

The groundwork of the poem is to be found in Josephus, but the events of a considerable time are compressed into a period of about

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