...these Nor skill'd nor studious higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold ? Climate, or years, damp my intended wing , ,• Depress'd, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear. The...

...knights. That name, unless an age too late, or cold 4* Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depress'd; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear. The sun was sunk, and after him the star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth,...

...his own ongoing struggle with the general pathology in the last words of his last invocation: unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.44-47) Continuing...

...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. [9.39-47] In this combination of suffering and hope, anguish at mankind's failures and faith in his...

...Bentley the Modern is especially disturbed by Milton's lament over his poetic disadvantages : ' unless an age too late, or cold / Climate, or Years damp my intended wing' (ix, 44-5). 'What's the Meaning of an Age too late?' expostulates Bentley; 'surely he could not think...

...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, m and curteisie. Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he (Bk. IX, 1. 41-47) NAEL-I; NAWM-1; NoP; OBS; TOP 89 Them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless...

...properly. Thus the poet hopes that he and his poem will achieve "heroic name," but they won't do so "if all be mine, / Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear" (Paradise Lost, IX. 44— 47). He actively persists despite his blindness, but his only persistent...

...raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed; and much they may if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nighdy to my ear. The sun was sunk, and after him the star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight...

...write Paradise Losf, he wonders whether the poem may actually be not inspired, that it may in fact "all be mine, / Not Hers, who brings it nightly to my Ear." Three-quarters into the work, he thus raises the possibility of its fundamentally mistaken claim; almost...

...self-chastizing "So did I weave my self into the sense" ("Jordan," 1.14)—or Milton's self-effacing "if all be mine, / Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear" (PL IX.46-7)—bears witness to the poet's anxiety over the individual creative impetus toward perfect...