[Milton-L] Reading Milton for pleasure

[Michael Bryson]

I read Milton for pleasure as well, and I'm fairly
sure that I do not fit anyone's definition of a
"puritanical Miltonist." I am, however, what one
might call a "denizen" of academia, and I am
reasonably sure that I exist outside your
imagination...

Enjoy Milton, by all means. No chewing or gumming
required.

Michael Bryson

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  Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:30:37 -0600
  From: "Paul Miller" <pm9 at comcast.net>
  Subject: [Milton-L] Reading Milton for pleasure
  To: "John Milton Discussion List"
  <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
  >Sometimes I imagine the denizens of academia as
  regarding Milton as within
  >their province alone and I can see them chewing
  away at his splendid
  >language for years so that no flavor exudes from
  the words and later gumming
  >the words in their dotage living in fear that
  someone somewhere is enjoying
  >Milton. I think it was Woolf who said that
  reading Milton was about the only
  >reading for pleasure that she ever got to do
  anymore. I know just what she
  >meant. I read Milton for pleasure. I guess you
  could call me a hedonistic
  >Miltonian and yes I know saying that is "hail
  horrors" to the puritanical
  >Miltonist out there if you exist outside my
  imagination of course.
  >
  >
  >Paul Miller
  >
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