...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...

...which literary duties and character should rest. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to unite well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have...

...gravité et convenance, il évitait les disputes de religion ; mais si on attaquait la sienne, trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things...be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern ofthe best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic meu or famous cities,...

...religion; mais si on attaquait la sienne, trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tuings ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a composition and p'attern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to smg high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have...

...persistently celebrate had been the aim of the poet himself many years since. As he wrote in 1642, "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem" (p. 62). To what extent the poem has been realized will continue to be...

...me" (889; the word "nature" recurs) that is the discovery of other authors. Thus the famous sentence, "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to be a true Poem" (890). Futurity depends upon prior textualization. But so, insistently,...

...Ibid., p. 5. 47. Campbell, "Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in Bush, The Portable Milton,...

...enlightenment he most desires comes only through holiness and purity. Hence, Milton's famous dictum that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem" enacts a fundamentally prophetic gesture. Similarly prophetic is his...

...from "An Apology of Smectymnuus" that Emerson quotes in the excerpt from "John Milton" just discussed (that" 'he who would not be frustrate of his hope...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; ... a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things' "). Channing then treats these early...

...Sonnet 7, the Letter to an Unknown Friend, "Lycidas," and Reason, he remarked in Apology for Smectymnuus "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things;...