[Milton-L] RE: Dennis Danielson's quiet voice

[Carrol Cox]

"Watt, James" wrote:
> 
>  Milton's critics will be read when Homer has been forgotten.

That reading and admiring Milton can lead to such incredibly ignorant
statements as this is the strongest possible negative judgment of
Milton. But Milton stands above such petty critics with their utter
inability to grasp Homer. The Iliad, in particular the last two books,
even in translation, tower over anything else ever written in the west.

In that poem, humanity discovers its humanity, snd the tragic meaning of
that humanity. Paradise Lost, as wonderful as it is, stands deep in the
shadow of Homer.

Carrol