Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . , that a distinct com-bination of them is always grotesque andoften ludicrous. Perhaps so; but to assumethat Milton thus lapses, is to beg the questionMilton does not seek to introduce into Para-dise Lost a courtly heaven; of heaven, itself,he makes all that is necessary for his poeticalsetting. What would Bagehot have him make? Had Milton indulged his enthusiasmfor particularizing about this courtly heaven,he would have proved himself supremelyinartistic. Macaulay admires the adroitnessof the poet in being able to suggest so ef-fectively by cover
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . , that a distinct com-bination of them is always grotesque andoften ludicrous. Perhaps so; but to assumethat Milton thus lapses, is to beg the questionMilton does not seek to introduce into Para-dise Lost a courtly heaven; of heaven, itself,he makes all that is necessary for his poeticalsetting. What would Bagehot have him make? Had Milton indulged his enthusiasmfor particularizing about this courtly heaven,he would have proved himself supremelyinartistic. Macaulay admires the adroitnessof the poet in being able to suggest so ef-fectively by covering the supernatural witha cloud of obscurity. This power of sugges-tion through the obscure is one of the mostartistic effects in all Milton. Paradise Lost, as a whole, is radicallytainted by a vicious principle. It professesto justify the ways of God to man, to accountfor sin and death; and it tells you that thewhole originated in a political event,—in acourt squabble as to a particular act of pat-ronage, and the due or undue promotion of. Knox and Holmes OHIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 137
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