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

[Tony Demarest]

Homer will never be forgotten because he created memory- a memory of before the Fall, before the need to justify the ways of God(s) to man, indeed, before any other writer/thinker discovered the ideas of rage, love, and home.

Tony
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> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:54:11 -0500
> From: cbcox at ilstu.edu
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] RE: Dennis Danielson's quiet voice
> 
> 
> 
> "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
> 
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