...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...

...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...

...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 virtue...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...

...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 virtue and public civility,0 to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate...

...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's ahnightiness ... to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints. . . . ' Note the ereation of...