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

[susan allison]

Homer, poet hero extraordinaire, was able to tap Milton on the  
shoulder, as he himself had been tapped. The poetic utterance of  
legendary history, myths, songs, chants have gained followers for,  
let's say safely, well over ten thousand years. I see "ideas of rage,  
love, and home" in Gilgamesh, the Popol Vuh, and in the Adam and Eve  
stories of the Koran, Torah, the Bible, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The  
sacred stories had a way of traveling, somehow,
all over the world.

3-pardon me
Susan Allison





On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Tony Demarest wrote:

>
> 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
> ----------------------------------------
>> 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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