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...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse or complex model,...

...determine on the epic form of composition as the best for his genius. " That epick " form," he had said, "whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two...

...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...Virgil and Tasso, are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a ltrief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse...