This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...have done their best to foster, that he is above all things a poet, and in that respect very difficult and inaccessible--not to say unhuman. But I am expected to address you on Milton as a man of letters. Does that mean that I am come to help to bury him deeper, not to praise him! How could I manage not to praise him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...have done their best to foster, that he is above all things a poet, and in that respect very difficult and inaccessible--not to say unhuman. But I am expected to address you on Milton as a man of letters. Does that mean that I am come to help to bury him deeper, not to praise him! How could I manage not to praise him when for years he has meant more to me personally than any other man or writer has ever meant? What though the turbulent age in which he lived seems far removed from ours and as small as it is remote; what though, thanks to the spread of knowledge and, in particular, to the discoveries of modern science, we envisage an earth and a universe vastly transformed from those in which he battled for his ideals and dreamed his sublime dreams; what though many of the stars by which he steered his bark have either disappeared from our heaven or been replaced by other guiding lamps; what though, amid this throbbing tumultuous present we stand amazed, new lights beaconing and new voices calling us on to the unknown, the fascinating realms that lie beyond; what though, atom as I am of this new, strange universe, I could not if I would, dissever myself from it, morally, mentally, or spiritually; am I not nevertheless subject, as you are, to that law of spiritual gravitation which is as far reaching and potent as its physical analogue, that law which forces me to seek out the noblest, the highest for me and, when found, to follow it and to bear testimony to it? And when, after using as best I could such faculties as I had, in seeing and hearing, in reading and reflecting, it was borne in upon me years since that for me the writer of writers, the man of men, the personality of personalities, was John Milton, then there was nothing left to do but, as it were, t...
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