Milton and the New Music

Abstract

In thinking of composition in a poem, as distinguished from the circumstances of the poet's writing it, the only question that matters is what exists and acts in the lines themselves. But the kind of observation then demanded of the reader is, luckily, inexhaustible, provided that the poem has intensity of language, or feeling, or idea: inseparable elements, varyingly combined according to the skill and interest of the poet and not unaffected by the spirit of the age. By the spirit of the age I mean what the poet and his associates read, heard discussed, saw about them, but equally, the expectations of the intelligent reader or listener, by which any writer will be affected whether he sympathizes with these expectations or wishes to change them.

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