[Milton-L] Reading Milton for pleasure

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

You seem to have imagined yourself into a denizens' den, but the actual Milton List is populated by all sorts of idiosyncratic individuals who've already hailed horrors, so you need not harrow hell to free us.

  Jeffery Hodges
  
Paul Miller <pm9 at comcast.net> wrote:
  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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Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley
(Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic Texts")
M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley
B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University

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