[Milton-L] Re: Reynolds Price on PL

[Kemmer Anderson]

I heard Reyonlds Price recite form memory Milton's "On His Blindness" 
at a public library in Charlotte. For someone suffering like Reyonlds 
Price,Milton is a hero, an example.
At 03:20 PM 11/18/2008, you wrote:
>Let me add my thanks to you for this link, Cynthia. It's a fine
>meditation on why Milton still matters.
>i
>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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