[Milton-L] Re: Reynolds Price on PL

[Campbell, W. Gardner]

Let me add my thanks to you for this link, Cynthia. It's a fine
meditation on why Milton still matters.

I need to read more Reynolds Price. I found "A Whole New Life" very
moving. Price's essay on the Gospel of John in a collection called
"Incarnation" is also a favorite of mine.

Gardner

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.>Thank you, Cynthia, for this 'heads up.'  I met Reynolds Price (a dear
friend of mine, Robert Bourdette, jr., was a close friend of Reynolds'
brother) when I was Jerry Mills' & O.B. Hardison's [grad] student at
near-by Chapel Hill in the late sixties. Already his Milton classes had
a reputation among undergrads at Duke. 

I was at Duke 1962-1966 - the last all white freshman class - can you
believe it?
.>
>Price's early (maybe first?) novel, A Long and Happy Life is a
wonderful read; I don't know if it is still in print, 

It was his first - don't know if he's still in print.  His non-fiction
book about his cancer - "A Whole new Life" - is excellent.  I've given
copies to friends diagnosed with cancer, and they say it tells it like
it is.  He's written a heck of a lot - varying qulaity, IMHO.  His
biblcal translations are interesting, as is what he says about our human
need for storyin the introduction to one of them, "A Palpable God."

C

Cynthia A. Gilliatt
English Department, JMU, ret.
JMU Safe Zones supporter
"You have made God in your own image when God hates the same people you
hate." Fr. John Weston
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