...much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradicate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Enough has been said of the poetry of Milton. To the initiated further remarks are unnecessary, and...

...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom3 at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SATAN'S MEETING WITH URIEL IN THE sira.4 HE soon Saw within ken a glorious angel stand, The same whom...

...works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather i hem, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.317 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate"—to enable him to see outward—"There plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse,...see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.51-55). In his formulation, this narrator is illuminated so that he can see. The epic begins, "What...

...Universal blanc Of Natures works to me expung'd and ras'd. And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward,...and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plam eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to...

...anticlericalism to his reading of Milton. In short, the blind poet who in 1667 had asked for 'Celestial Light' to Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton 1990: 201) was himself enlisted as a secular scripture in the cause of what was already, by...

...universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (PL, 1n.4o-55)1 The passage turns, as the poem turns, upon God's ability to bring light out of darkness....

...divine force in it" (21-22). Milton speaks from within the same tradition: So much the rather them Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.20 The classical notion of poetic genius as exemplified and recounted by Plato, Sidney, and Milton...

...to trouble the mind's eye") and 1.2.185 ("In my mind's eye, Horatio"), and Paradise Lost 3: 51-53: So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes. . . , (emphasis added) WORKS CITED Engle, Lars. Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time. Chicago:...

...being cut off 'from the cheerful ways of men', Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works ... So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.42 Andrew Marvell took up the theme of compensation for blindness in 'On Paradise Lost', prefixed...