Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato…. To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
In the vein of Plato’s Republic before it and Rousseau’s Emile after, On Education is a personal epistle aimed at the training of youth in the classic and poetic traditions as well as the future of scientific studies.
