[Milton-L] Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...

[Andrew Strycharski]

I really didn't mean to spoil the fun of comparing PL to basic writing. 
It's just that one occasionally sees on academic lists people arguing 
that because _Paradise Lost_ or _King Lear_ wouldn't pass freshman comp, 
that's somehow evidence that the folks who devote their energies to 
investigating how to teach average writers to write clearly are ninnies.

Thanks, Jeffery.
-Andy

Horace Jeffery Hodges wrote:
> Well, since I'm asked -- at least implicitly -- to be humorless, or at 
> least serious, then I would agree that Milton knows how to state his 
> thesis quite clearly and methodically, and I would also agree that 
> /Paradise Lost/ itself presents an argument. Some years back, I even 
> published an article exploring why Milton chooses to construct his 
> argument in poetic form . . . though I can't say that I was entirely 
> successful in demonstrating why he did.
>  
> Jeffery Hodges
>