[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:24:48 -0600
I don't believe so ...I'll have to ask her. But I'm not sure I perceive of
Milton as more challenging for contemporary Americans than Shakespeare...
Julie Krueger
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:21 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Has she read Milton?
> John
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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> That seems overly-pessimistic. My 17 yr. old is a Junior in High School
>> (your ordinary garden variety public school) and in English (granted it's an
>> honor's English class) read Romeo & Juliette last year and loved it. I
>> doubt she's unique among High Schoolers.
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>> Julie Krueger
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>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:10 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>> 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"...
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>>> 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?
>>> --
>>> John McCreery
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> John McCreery
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