[Milton-L] Milton and Gardens: queries on JM's aesthetics

[Michael Bryson]

Ah yes, the Milton I remember from my undergrad
days. Long may he rest in peace.

When I think of Milton and liberty, it is not limits
that come to mind, but capacities, knowledge, even
insight. As I see it, this liberty is something
achieved
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by searching within, by heeding the promptings of
“the Spirit, which is internal, and the individual
possession of every man” (De Doctrina Christiana
YP 6:587); the limits to such liberty--if any--are
internal, not external, and certainly not in so
grossly external a form as walls.

And I don't live in a fallen state...I live in
California (insert your own punchline here).

Michael Bryson

---- Original message ----

  Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:09:26 -0400
  From: alan horn <alanshorn at gmail.com>
  Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Milton and Gardens:
  queries on JM's aesthetics
  To: John Milton Discussion List
  <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
  >As natural as it is for us in our fallen state to
  think of boundaries
  >as taking away freedom, for Milton true liberty
  is the willing
  >acceptance of rational limits. This may have
  something to do with the
  >wall issue. It's only after the expulsion from
  Eden that these walls
  >are perceived to be limits, shutting Adam and Eve
  out. Now that they
  >have all the world before them it's a
  deprivation, leaving them to
  >wander in search of a resting place.
  >
  >Alan H.
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