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

Sat May 2 11:14:29 EDT 2009

PS: We did Noh- Opera Macbeth at our art center to standing room only  
sold out audiences. We do spectacular things with the classics, in  
combination with music and other cultural traditions.
http://www.wahcenter.net/events/2004/performancesfromjapan/macbeth.html
Review of Noh- Opera Macbeth:
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2141&Itemid=203
On May 1, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Mineo Moritani wrote:

> 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
>> Makers
>> To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
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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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