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

[Watt, James]

Dear Carol:

Bless you for your kindness in response; of course Homer will NEVER be forgotten, which means that Bob Southey's epics, like Milton's critics, will never be read, since they will have to wait for Homer to be forgotten.  In the mean time, I'd like to know how to find the Homer Thread you're talking about because I always loved teaching the Iliad myself, tho' it was never as someone who could read Greek or was up on the Homer Scholarship, just for the pleasure of engaging undergraduates with the poem.  One of my fondest memories was doing an Honors Seminar on the Iliad with a colleague: the subject was The Iliad as a War poem ... and as an Anti-War poem.  We all had a wonderful time and I'm glad to know that there are some people out there who will be ready, when someone claims either position, to say, "Not so fast!  I studied that poem in college and..."

again thanks for responding

Jim Watt
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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu [milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox [cbcox at ilstu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:50 PM
To: John Milton Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] RE: Dennis Danielson's quiet voice

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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