| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...England h.ith had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...editors. ii In The Reason ofChurch-governement of 1642 occurs Milton's statement about 'that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model '.20 It has been said that the Hebrews produced no epic poetry, but Charles Jones and Barbara... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...could unite to the adorning of my native tongue," and the kinds of poetry he contemplated writing: Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hopes and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1969 - 1278 pages
...character of Milton, with a mild energy, a solemn splendor of sentiment and expression peculiar to himself. "Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed.... | |
| John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...(ie songs) of Pindar and Callimachus, but with Biblical precedents pointedly emphasized. that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be follow'd,... | |
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...even as Charles Dunster had in 1795, that Milton's rather puzzling reference in RCG to "that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model" is a serious statement of generic theory with direct applicability to PR. Investigation of the... | |
| John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...decision, are designed to prepare Milton for the "fresh Woods, and Pastures new," for those things which "the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting" (Reason, 38). Once we consider that Milton's... | |
| William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...as Barrow does in his dedicatory verses, In The Reason of Church Governmenl he speaks of "that Hpick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and 'lasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model" lWolfe. i:8i3). The note on "The Verse" ladded... | |
| Kevin Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...Milton's time. His poetic ambitions are related to the reader in terms of self-described circuitousness: "Perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting" (YM 1, 81:1-13). Again and again, what we... | |
| John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...had her noble atchievments made small by the unskilfull handling of monks and mechanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems... | |
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