[Milton-L] Recitations of PL

[Lorayne C. Mundy]

It's happening all over I'm afraid...my school has already cut back on "classical lit " courses, considering them non-essential to today's environment.  It will never die out completely (says she, tongue in cheek), but the underlying fallout is that the average contemporary student will not deem it a "...path of a virtuous and noble Education..."  but rather "...laborious...(and)...not more charming...".    On the bright side, for those students who do manage to pass through a Milton course, there are always those who see the light, and will harbor it in their bosoms.  They may be the ones who are the guardians.  I like to think that the pendulum will then swing back in favor of the humanities.  This current period is like living on the cusp, and gives me insight into the likes of the Greek authors who lived in a post  Golden Age Greece, watching a whole civilization dying out...how sad it must have been for them too.    
lcmundy
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marlene Edelstein 
  To: John Milton Discussion List 
  Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:10 AM
  Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Recitations of PL


        I am filled with awe and envy when I read about commitment to Paradise Lost throughout the world. In September 2007 I organised a full-text reading at Copenhagen University. It was a great success, with the participation not only of students and academic staff but of a number of readers from outside the university. Now, in this year when we should be celebrating Milton, such an event seems impossible. The English department has been relegated to being a section of an Institute of modern languages and English literature has almost been starved out of existence. No-one in authority cares a whit about Milton - or Shakespeare, for that matter, or whatever we recognise as the soul of our subject. Those few of us left who care about literature pre-1900 are demoralised to the point of paralysis, and there would now be no support for Milton readings or symposiums.
                 Is this happening elsewhere?

                        Marlene R. Edelstein

        believe everything, believe nothing

        --- On Fri, 31/10/08, Jean E. Graham <graham at tcnj.edu> wrote:

          From: Jean E. Graham <graham at tcnj.edu>
          Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Recitations of PL
          To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
          Date: Friday, 31 October, 2008, 9:55 PM


My Milton students are organizing a reading this semester--only the 2nd time
I've done it.

Jean Graham

Jean E. Graham
Associate Professor of English
The College of New Jersey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Herz" <jherz at alcor.concordia.ca>
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 4:43:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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-- Harold Bloom could and did. 
-- I have from time to time done readings with my Milton 
course. 
Judith Herz 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: James Rovira 
To: John Milton Discussion List 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:43 PM 
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Recitations of PL 

Aren't there legendary accounts of Harold Bloom reciting PL from memory?
There's a reference to this in _Historicizing Theory_ by Marc Redfield,
footnote 17 on p. 230: 

http://books.google.com/books?id=X9ambmYA5qcC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=harold+bloom+reciting+paradise+lost+from+memory&source=web&ots=InTV65rs5L&sig=AtRSrGiGp2dzAGgRccx1x-f6KiE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result


Jim R 


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Angelica Duran < duran0 at purdue.edu >
wrote: 



Dear scholars, 

I am finishing up a paper on oral readings of Paradise Lost . I have enough but
I would like to be as comprehensive as possible. Please contact me off-list if
you know of or have participated in the following: 






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