...English language, drew his inspiration direct "from this source. These memorable words of his : " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings ! He had not...

...me" (889; the word "nature" recurs) that is the discovery of other authors. Thus the famous sentence, "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to be a true Poem" (890). Futurity depends upon prior textualization. But so, insistently,...

...Ibid., p. 5. 47. Campbell, "Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in Bush, The Portable Milton,...

...enlightenment he most desires comes only through holiness and purity. Hence, Milton's famous dictum that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem" enacts a fundamentally prophetic gesture. Similarly prophetic is his...

...from "An Apology of Smectymnuus" that Emerson quotes in the excerpt from "John Milton" just discussed (that" 'he who would not be frustrate of his hope...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; ... a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things' "). Channing then treats these early...

...Sonnet 7, the Letter to an Unknown Friend, "Lycidas," and Reason, he remarked in Apology for Smectymnuus "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things;...

...lies behind Milton's famous version of the ancient dictum that a good orator must be a good man:30 "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things"...

...activity as the final preparation for a heroic poem. As he puts it in the Apology, "he who would . . . write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," presumably, in his case, by involvement in a just cause. In the Reason of Church Government Milton...

...breeding. (DO 24) Cicero's point is not far from Milton's observation in the Apology for Smectymnuus that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things" (Milton 694), a remark that itself fashions the exemplary individual in rhetorical...

...all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have...