[Milton-L] A Milton quote

[Nancy Charlton]

"Dr Mardy's Quotes of the Week" just came in, and I find a Milton quotation in it:

 "Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem."

          John Milton

I have no convenient way to find out where in Milton's oeuvre this is found. I find the idea intriguing though. Very Renaissance, echo of Jonson's poem where he dubs his son his best poem.

Nancy Charlton

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. . . Till old experience do attain

To something like prophetic strain.  (Il Penseroso)




      
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