[Milton-L] A prosody Thank you

[Kemmer Anderson]

Moving from the 5 class = soccer coach at boys prep school, I felt 
frozen in the research process as well as the writing - probably like 
my students. I wished I could have walked into Paul Ramsey's office 
and talked prosody. He would have been happy to get me out of 
theology into prosody. Thank you all for your help. Again i moved to 
Jefferson side of the library to the Milton side and did have time to 
think. Bridges is great because I did a paper on Gerard Manley 
Hopkins, years ago. I finished John Creaser's article. I felt freed 
up to apply sound to dramatic emotion of the character. The Jefferson 
reference in his essay on Prosody have some psychological choices. 
His ear is sensitive and "judicious."
Also in teaching sound to students within the movement of Milton's 
grand oratory and other poems now gives me a new vehicle and means of 
attack. Attridge's "student" (172) seems to apply to all of us when 
we first read poetry and are given the math or code of prosody. 
Rhythm and prosody as separate is a great release.
Also taking a semester course in ancient Greek with my students last 
fall allowed me to understand the source of prosody.
Thanks Alan, Feisel, Matthew, Michael, John Shawcross, and John 
Creaser and others for mentoring me through the opening round. I hope 
to see you all in Murfreesboro.
Also I will finishing up some poems next week; the reading will play 
a part in that process. Thank you, Kemmer