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

[Campbell, W. Gardner]

James Dougal Fleming writes:
 
"the modalities of intensional transmission in which Milton as poet, and the teacher as critic, are expert."
 
 
Including the modality of what Frost calls "the constant symbol," and what Wally Kerrigan terms "the enfolded sublime," the figure that we occupy and that at the same time occupies us. The semantic and the existential find a happy union there. If Kerrigan is also right that Milton is the master poet of the enfolded sublime, then Milton matters very much as a master of communicable meaning. (I realize I'm probably just mangling what James has already said, but at least it's an enthusiastic mangling, and a covert invitation for him to elaborate on his observation.)
 
Gardner
 
Dr. Gardner Campbell 
Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning 
Assoc. Prof. of Literature and Media, Honors College 
Baylor University 
One Bear Place, Box 97189 
Waco, TX 76798 
254.710.3412 
www.gardnercampbell.net

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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 JDF

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

Nicht deines, einer Welt.
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