[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:10:05 +0900
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> My gut reaction, I have to admit is, to shout "travest", "obscenity",
> "dumbing-down of Americans"...
>
Aren't the facts of the matter that very few Americans will ever read Milton
and that Milton's world and language are slipping beyond the same sort of
horizon that now separates most of us from Beowulf, the Canterbury Tales,
even a lot of Shakespeare?
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John McCreery
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