[Milton-L] Making Milton Matter To . . .

[jfleming at sfu.ca]

Louis writes:

"That peculiar intensity, that
sense of mastery and being mastered, of being embraced and expelled, of
embracing and expelling, teaching and being taught, is the only argument
I've got.

Is there a better one?"

If there is -- and in my opinion, there is -- it has to do with the
subject-matters of Milton -- in other words, the ideas that his texts are
about. The latter, moreover, are traceable not to the ethical or visceral
experience of the world, but to the modalities of intensional transmission
in which Milton as poet, and the teacher as critic, are expert. JDF

James Dougal Fleming
Associate Professor
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
778-782-4713
cell: 604-290-1637

Nicht deines, einer Welt.