Popular English Specimens of the Greek Dramatic Poets: With Introductory Essays, and Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Milton, in his letter' to Master Hartlib, ranks it among the last literary attainments and delights of a complete and generous education, to master the Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argu ment, which, with a due proficiency in that art which Aristotle and Horace in their Poetics teach, and after them Italian poets and commentators both declare and practise, may serve to shew us what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. Yet it is certain, that to a vast majority of readers, those poets of whom Milton speaks.

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