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Excerpt from Of Philosophy in the Poets: Opening Lecture to the Edinburgh University Philosophical Society, November 5, Session 1884-5 Milton, as we know, is the most erudite of poets. He has fed, like a bee, steadily on every peculiar flower of poetry, - Greek, Latin, or Italian, - and ah sorbed into himself the very essence of its peculiarity, if only once for all in its kind genuine. Now, this has largely done him injustice with foreigners, who praise him, indeed, as classical, as eloquent, &c., but do so only at second hand, - in point of actual fact neglecting and passing over him as only classical, only eloquent - that is, as only imitation and an echo. Now that is a vast mistake. With all his culture, Milton is the richest, the truest, the most genuine and original pure poet that ever lived. O, exclaimed a young German lady, unknown to me, travelling in a railway oarriage, to an English gentleman accompany ing her, who, in answer to her fervid enthusiasm for our Keats's and our Shelleys, only cared for Guitty, as he called him - O, exclaimed she, Go-ethe* Go-ethe - enormous depth requires to be given to the o in the diphthong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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