...loftier enthusiasm than the desire to rival an Ovid or even a Spenser, and though he is still questioning "what king or knight before the conquest might be...in whom to lay the pattern " of a Christian hero, it is easy to see that such a theme will fail to satisfy his present more comprehensive purposes. From...

...Reason of Church Government , argues "whether the laws of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or Nature to be followed, which, in them that know...judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art." Dryden says: "Better a mechanic rule were stretched or broken than a great beauty were omitted." Shelley,...

...enthusiasm than the desire to rival an Ovid or even a Spenser, -and though he is still questioning "what king or knight before the conquest might be...chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero," it is easy to see that such a theme will fail to satisfy his more comprehensive purposes. His passion...

...that the Great Man possesses a higher order of power. For Milton, after raising the question 'what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe,'21 finds the poet's 'abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired guift of God rarely...

...Virgil, Tasso, and Job, Milton considers 'whether the rules of Aristotle herein are to be strictly kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know...judgment is no transgression, but an enriching of art.' In his tractate Of Education (1644) he contends that, even before rhetoric one should study poetry:...

...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, 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...

...that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what Kfing] or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys...

...Christian basis. In The Reason of Church Government Milton will declare his epic interest in "what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian heroe" (YPW, 1:81314). But in Epitaphium Damonis, the disgruntled poet disdains any Christian connections....

...them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys...

...apparent from the next consideration: 'or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature 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 Conquest...