26. See C. S. Baldwin, Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic , 
and D. L. Clark, Rhetoric and Poetry in the  
Renaissance . They find this Ciceronian fusion of poetic 
and rhetoric puzzling. But Milton accepted it. He takes 
the Ciceronian view in his tract On Education . After 
grammar, he says, just so much logic should be 
studied as is useful to “a graceful and ornate 
rhetoric.” To these “poetry would be made 
subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less 
subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous and 
passionate.” These latter words of Milton have often 
been cited out of context and without any regard for 
the precise technical sense of Milton’s language.