[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:35:54 -0600
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.
Julie Krueger
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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