...self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Iob a brief, model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or 1° nature...

...self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Iob a brief, model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or 10 nature...

...ofChurch-governement of 1642 occurs Milton's statement about 'that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil 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 Lewalski21...

...herself, though of highest hopes and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are...to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression but an enriching of art: and lastly, what king or knight before the...

...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso,...are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed. . ." These words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt, that Milton intended his Paradise lost...

...Callimachus, but with Biblical precedents pointedly emphasized. that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso...Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be follow'd, which in them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art....

...well trodden by sixteenth-century Italian critics as the poet deliberates over whether in writing epic 'the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed'17 - that is, whether neoclassical prescriptions for the form of epic be adopted, or the freer...

...Milton questions whether the epic poet should essentially imitate the great epics of the past [...] or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be follow'd which in them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art.7...

...self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso...Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be follow'd, which in them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art....

...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: Whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model . . .' (237). Thus, in his fourth tract, The Reason of Church Government — the first tract to which...