...as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate"; genre and decorum teach "what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and humane things."37 The equivocation and affirmation recall Sidney: "For poesy must...

...would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common Rimers and Playwriters be, and shew them, what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of Poetry both in divine and humane things. From hence and not till now will be the right season of forming them...

...observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and playwrights be and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. From hence, and not till now, will be the right season of forming...

...passionate' than logic and rhetoric, not to exalt it above the philosophical arts but to insist upon 'what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things'.1 Geoffrey Hill has frequently drawn attention to Milton's formulation...

...This would make them,' concludes Milton, 'soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhimers and play-writers be, and show them what religious,...glorious, and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.' "This passage is quoted, becaused it is desirable to impress on the...

...1640s, while the possibilities for Paradise Lost were first stirring in his imagination, Milton affirmed "what Religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of Poetry both in divine and humane things."3" Milton's solution to Augustine's predicament is fairly simple,...

...[students] soon perceive what despicable creatures our comm[on] Rimers and Play- writers be, and shew them, what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of Poetry both in divine and humane things" — a set of concerns relived in Andrew Marvell's commendatory poem...

...what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers...glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. From hence, and not till now, will be the right season of forming...

...others. " This " he says " would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common Rimers and play-writers be ; and show them what religious,...glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry both in divine and humane things." This large curriculum would be concluded by literary compositions...