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mysteries and to name them like a nominalist magician:
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. (60)
By comparison, Milton’s unfallen Adam is a harassed
agricultural laborer:
Then commune how that day they best may ply
Their growing work—for much their work outgrew
The hands’ dispatch of two gardening so wide: (61)