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

[Mario DiCesare]

Whoops! Thanks, Susan, for your rich comment which anticipated me, though I wasn't 
aware of it. I hadn't seen your post before writing mine.

Right on!

Mario A. DiCesare



susan allison wrote:
> 
> 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
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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