With the utility of the religious discussion in poetic form 
Larry Send a noteboard - 12/01/2011 06:50:30 PM
Larry Send a noteboard - 12/01/2011 06:50:30 PM
Since I don't want to usurp your post on it, here's the link. I suspect we'll have some disagreements on certain points
You certainly make a good point about the theme of people foolishly struggling to be "free", and I agree that the combination of Antique and Christian influences is sometimes odd - he does at one point explain how he reconciles the Muse with Christian theology, but it's not too convincing. And while I don't know enough about Protestant theology in general or British 17th century theological rivalries in particular to place Milton the way you did, it certainly makes sense to me. Okay, you evidently found the preaching less boring and insipid than I did, but that's just a matter of taste, more than of opinion (or it would have to be differences in our opinions on religion, rather than on Paradise Lost).
Where did you figure our disagreements would be?
I've had several grad classes on religious history, including a couple on Early Modern English cultural/religious history, so I'm going to be drawn into noticing those things and to find them to be quite fascinating and far from tedious. That's where I figured we'd disagree, since the theological arguments intrigue me, particularly how Milton worked them in throughout his lines.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
John Milton - Paradise Lost (and Paradise Regained)
- 11/01/2011 11:25:45 PM
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- 11/01/2011 11:55:35 PM
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Wow. <<<<Should be over there<<<<
- 12/01/2011 12:03:38 AM
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- 12/01/2011 12:47:50 AM
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The word "book" is a bit misleading, they're really more like chapters.
- 12/01/2011 06:22:38 PM
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I'm glad we agree on so much. 
- 12/01/2011 06:50:27 PM
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Re: I'm glad we agree on so much.
- 12/01/2011 07:47:21 PM
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I thought I'd have a short response
- 12/01/2011 12:13:48 AM
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OK, I blogged about my own reaction to it
- 12/01/2011 05:26:18 AM
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Not that much in there that I disagree with, actually.
- 12/01/2011 06:30:28 PM
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With the utility of the religious discussion in poetic form
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Well, if I'd found really all of those Heaven books boring, I'm not sure I'd have finished it.
- 13/01/2011 09:53:19 PM
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Re: Well, if I'd found really all of those Heaven books boring, I'm not sure I'd have finished it.
- 13/01/2011 10:32:49 PM
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I've started to read it three times and put it down due to the style.
- 12/01/2011 01:34:24 AM
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Yeah, if you really dislike the style, it really may not be worth forcing yourself through.
- 12/01/2011 06:33:43 PM
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Okay, i think I may change my classic from this to something else now *NM*
- 12/01/2011 02:41:59 PM
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It certainly wasn't my intention to frighten people off. Like I said, I'm glad I read it. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 06:31:31 PM
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Like I said, I'm glad I read it. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 06:31:31 PM
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