[Milton-L] Al Labriola

[Greg Lowe]

 My spirits are truly dampened to learn of our loss. I had the opportunity to participate in Dr. Labriola's NEH Summer Seminar "Paradise Lost and the Contemporary Reader" in the summer of 1990. It was a great time and I had been making plans to drop by western PA to sit in on a session of the seminar that had been planned for this summer. I had been imagining what I would feel in experiencing the joy however briefly of revisiting those old times and then perhaps to arrange a lunch with Dr. Labriola (I can still hear him saying "call me Al"). And then I get this news today and then "...Astonied stood and blank, while horrour chill / Ran through his veins, and all his joints relaxed; / From his slack hand the garland... / Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed: / Speechless he stood and pale," and I know that "Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe..." I expect that Dr Labriola might feel that I overstate here, but great loss is great loss whether it be Eve for Adam or Al for all of us.


 

Greg Lowe 

Collins Hill High School

Suwanee, Georgia

 

> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:53:37 -0400
> From: dvu2 at calvin.edu
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> Subject: [Milton-L] Al Labriola
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Please let me add my voice to the many sorrowful mourners of Al's passing. He was so gracious, so magnanimous, so humble. I'm having a very hard time right now imagining the Milton scholarly scene without him. I know I am not alone in saying that I feel such a debt of gratitude to him.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> David
> 
> 
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