Preview   In 1787, Mary Wollstencraft complained that she was “sick of hearing of the sublimity of Milton.” The judgment had become as hackneyed and vacuous as the observation that Shakespeare possessed an “original, untaught genius.” But did Milton himself have regard for Longinus, or any ambition to write sublimely? He does, to be sure, … Continue reading Milton, Longinus, and the sublime in the seventeenth century