...Areopagitica, he seems to have considered that poetry is "of power beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility" (Grundy, p. 214). With regard to the heroic, Drayton contended in England's Heroicall Epittles (1597)...

...psalter translation,67 and perhaps that hope translated into his epic-psalter. His early commitment to "celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness" awaited the proper setting; Milton's Book of Praises to creation had to grow out of the context of...

...beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu, and pubiick civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind,...glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his...

...beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu and publick civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune.119 Even here, at the centre of Milton's poetics of Reformation, there are traces of what might...

...Second, bestowal of the poetic gift by God was acknowledged by promise through this immortal literature "to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightinesse, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his...

...benefits and the functions of poetic talents that "are the inspired gift of God" and that are able "to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of...of the mind and set the affections in right tune" (Complete Prose Works, 1:816 -17). At this point, Milton may not be recalling the more obviously "prophetic"...

...inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of verm, and publick civility, to allay the pertubations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune,...glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightinesse, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his...

...yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of...and equipage of God's almightiness and what He works . . .' (238; italics added). Here is Milton's open, public declaration of his poetical ministry. Without...

...principle as "entities are not to be multiplied without necessity." 7 A Theory of the Neuroses ...to calm the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune. — Milton: The Reason of Church Government In this chapter I examine the theory of which the mechanisms...

...purpose, but it is noteworthy that, in so doing, she quotes Milton as assigning to the poet a mission "to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right order". This is an advance on the position in which a poem or a novel is treated as a means to some...