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

[Carrol Cox]

Tone often does not cary in e-mail. Sorry I respondned so quickly. But
about 7 or 8 years ago several posters to this list did seriously 'put
down' the Iliad, calling achilles mindless, etc. Hence my quickness  to
assume you were serious.

Incidentally, I used material I had composed for that go-round to
launnch a Homer=thread onnn LBO-Talk, the list which has been my main
intellectual home since I retired 11 years ago. As a result, I got the
following post a couple months ago from another list subscriber:

****
I was just reading the Iliad, and revelling in just how wonderful it is,
and how full of riches and surprises, and it occurred to me that I owe
it all to you.  If not for your boosting of the poem, and the depth and
interest in your claims, I never would have been moved to read it in its
true poetic form (as opposed to the prose narrative summaries that had
previously made me think I'd read it). 

So thanks a lot.  I'm really enjoying it.  When I'm in the right mood to
receive it, it's like a waterfall of fireworks.  It's really, really
beautiful.
******

I believe he is reading it in the Fagles trannslation.

Carrol


"Watt, James" wrote:
> 
> Carol:
> 
> Lord Byron was being sarcastic.  So was I.
> 
> Sorry
> 
> Jim Watt
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