[Milton-L] Re: Milton-L Digest, Vol 29, Issue 77

Fri May 1 22:09:28 EDT 2009

Hello Dear Yuko Nii,
I am interested in your plan of Milton eduation. Can I something for you in 
the enterprize?

Yours,
Mineo Moritani

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>   1. Outreach to Educational Programming Decision Makers (Yuko Nii)
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> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:47:23 -0400
> From: Yuko Nii <wahcenter at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Milton-L] Outreach to Educational Programming Decision
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> From: Yuko Nii,
> Yuko Nii Foundation
>
> As you all know, it has been a great year for us here regarding
> Milton's Paradise Lost. We have received world-wide attention for our
> Milton celebration last October.
>
> Since then we have decided to publish a Paradise Lost broadsheet as a
> "learning incentive" for high school and college students. We ran it
> by Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser, a renowned educator, and the 19th
> President of St. Bonaventure University. He was ecstatic about the
> idea (see his response below)
>
> We would like to present the concept to educational publishers and
> committees, with a desire to have it distributed. Do any of you have
> any suggestions on how we might go about this? Your help would be
> highly appreciated. We are neophytes at educational publishing, but we
> expect to have more offerings on a range of subjects over the next few
> years. Perhaps you can recommend an agent.
>
> Sincerely, Yuko Nii
>
>
>
> What we are offering to schools: An 11 X 17 inch full color
> broadsheet. It is a unique folded broadsheet (folded to 5.5 X 8.5
> inches) that contains the entire synopsized edition of Terrance
> Lindall's rendition of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The beauty of this
> edition is that it is complete with exciting images and is very
> inexpensive, such that schools can afford to hand it out free at the
> beginning of the English literature course to all the students in the
> class, inspiring their study of Milton's work!  Translatable into any
> major language.
>
>
> From Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser:
> Dear Terrance,
>
>
> When I first received the information in your email sent only a short
> while ago (4/20/09), I was genuinely very excited, hopeful that I
> might play some small part in helping you, Yuko Nii, and the Center
> launch what I wish I had had available to me when I taught literature
> in my Abbey's Prep School years ago.  Now that you have sent me my box
> with copies of what you described in your earlier email, I am
> genuinely in awe of what you have prepared for teachers of literature
> in high schools.
>
>
>
> I applaud you for providing a new and most exciting manner for making
> Milton come alive for all of (or at least a great many) high school
> students.  As I held your broadsheet in front of me I was transformed
> into that student who sees visually for the first time drawings/
> illustrations for the great English epic Milton wrote, Paradise Lost,
> a highly visionary epic, doing for England what Virgil did for Italy,
> and Homer for Greece (as briefly stated summary of Dryden's great
> epigram).
>
>
>
> Your broadsheet (with images beyond compare) are your grand gift to
> all students (of all ages)  - now and in the future.  They are worth
> far, far more than they or anyone, really, could afford to pay.  If
> Milton has been brought to a new life in the 20th century,
> particularly the last half of that century, then surely special
> interest in Milton's epic will take hold in high school students and
> will prepare those students far more for study of Milton in college
> than perhaps any class of high school students before now.  Thus, not
> only are your images beyond compare, but they are also part of a gift
> beyond compare in the form of the published broadsheets provided by
> the Centre.
>
>
>
> I was likewise in awe of your warm and most welcome presentation
> copies to me.
>
>
>
> With much esteem and abiding gratitude,
>
> Bob
> On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:44 PM, elizabeth wrote:
>>
>> Dear Terrance Lindall,
>>
>> Great Coincidence...it  never happens when trying to locate an
>> artist that
>> you reach them on the first try! And thank you for being willing...
>>
>> This is to request permission to reproduce your work "A Dungeon
>> Horrible"
>> (from your Paradise Lost series) in a forthcoming textbook on
>> literature for
>> high school students to be published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
>> This
>> work would accompany the section on John Milton.
>>
>> I attach a permission for for you to fill out and return.
>>
>> It is most kind of you to be able to send me the image tomorrow.
>> Would you
>> also send me the title, dimensions, medium and your birthdate. I
>> assume the
>> credit will be the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center.
>>
>> Thank you for all of this and for being able to help so quickly.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Liz Meryman
>>
>>
>> Elizabeth Meryman
>> Art Consultant
>> Carousel Research
>> 236 West 26th St
>> New York, NY 10001
>> cell: 347 668 2184
>> email: emeryman at earthlink.net
>>
>> <gr12PrefPerm2.doc>
>
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Steve Fallon wrote:
>
>> Ross,
>>
>> I've attempted a more elaborate answer to these questions in "'To
>> Act or Not': Milton's Conception of Divine Freedom," Journal of the
>> History of Ideas 49 (1988): 425-49.  Here's a short version: For
>> Milton, God can do only good when he acts, but he can choose to act
>> or not.  This distinguishes Milton from, e.g., the Cambridge
>> Platonists, who argued that God necessarily performs the good.  The
>> Cambridge Platonist God must create the world, and must create the
>> world as soon as he can, because this God cannot omit any potential
>> good action.
>>
>> A bit more elaboration: The passage just before the first passage
>> you quote contains the answer you need.  Milton distinguishes
>> between external or compulsory necessity, on the one hand, and
>> internal or natural necessity, on the other.  What limits freedom of
>> action, Milton writes (at the top of p. 1155) is "any necessity
>> operating externally upon a given cause," which "makes it produce a
>> certain effect or limits it from producing other effects" (my
>> emphasis).   The perfect freedom of God is a freedom from any
>> external influence or compulsory necessity.
>>
>> For God to be able to will evil would, in Milton's view (and not in
>> his alone), amount not to freedom but contradiction.  Because God's
>> nature is good, the free expression of that nature is in willing the
>> good.  If one views God's inability to contradict himself as a
>> limitation of his freedom, then this God is not absolutely free.
>> But neither Milton nor the tradition generally view this inability
>> as a restriction of freedom.
>>
>> There's more in the essay, but this is a start.
>>
>> In terms of analogy to human freedom, the absolute freedom of God
>> resembles the freedom of one who is confirmed in goodness and no
>> longer bound to sin (in the state of non posse peccare) and not the
>> freedom of the one in this world, either before or after the fall,
>> who can choose good or evil.
>>
>> It's good to hear that you're using the edition. If you (or anyone
>> else) find any typos (and there are some), I'd appreciate your
>> dropping me a note.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Steve Fallon
>>
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Ross Leasure wrote:
>>
>>> Dear mentors and colleagues,
>>>
>>> I write humbly to ask for some guidance (as I plow through excerpts
>>> of
>>> De Doctrina Christiana from the recently published Modern Library
>>> edition) in preparation for teaching tomorrow's class.  I'm sure I'm
>>> missing something, my own feeble faculties insufficient to comprehend
>>> Milton's logic.  My particular difficulty is in wrapping my mind
>>> around what seems to me a problematic contradition presented briefly
>>> in the following to passages:
>>>
>>> "In God a certain immutable internal necessity to do good,
>>> independent
>>> of all outside influences, can be consistent with absolute freedom of
>>> action" (c. 3; p. 1155).
>>>
>>> "God always acts with absolute freedom, working out his own purpose
>>> and volition" (c. 5; p. 1174).
>>>
>>> If an immutable God, of internal necessity, can only do good, is he
>>> not limited in his freedom since he cannot will evil?  How can God's
>>> incapacity to will evil be "consistent with absolute freedom of
>>> action" in other words?  Or could God will evil, but chooses not to?
>>> Wouldn't that change the essential nature of Milton's good God?
>>>
>>> I'm anticipating that some of my students might ask similar
>>> questions,
>>> and I don't yet have sufficient understanding to untie what seems to
>>> me a indissoluable logical knot.  I look forward to reading whatever
>>> correction or redirection will be forthcoming regarding my inquiry.
>>> Thank you in advance for your assistance and consideration.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> T. Ross Leasure
>>> Dept. of English
>>> Salisbury University
>>> Salisbury MD 21801
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