...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 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...

...adorning of my native tongue," and the kinds of poetry he contemplated writing: Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...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...

...mild energy, a solemn splendor of sentiment and expression peculiar to himself. "Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly...

...(ie songs) of Pindar and Callimachus, but with Biblical precedents pointedly emphasized. 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: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to...

...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 two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model" is a serious statement of generic theory with direct applicability...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 any certain...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...

...reader' the potentialities and best examples of each, beginning with the epic. 'Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...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...