Excerpt from Milton's Tercentenary: An Address Delivered Before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth BirthdayOf the master. Two things in par ticular, the rhythm and the style, go on Victoriously as by their own momentum. God the Father may be a school divine and Adam a mem ber of Parliament, but the verse never ¿ags, the diction never fails. The poem may grow heavy, but not languid, thin or weak. I confess that there are traits of Milton which repel or irritate, that there are poets with whom sympathy is easier. And if I were speaking merely as an impressionist, I might prefer them to him. But this does not affect my estimate of his absolute greatness. All poets, then, and lovers of poetry, all literary critics and stu dents of language must honor in Milton the almost faultless artist, the supreme master of his craft. But there is a reason why, not alone the literary class, but all men of English stock should celebrate Milton's terr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.