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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.