Re: Well, if I'd found really all of those Heaven books boring, I'm not sure I'd have finished it.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 13/01/2011 10:32:49 PM
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.
So at the various points where he was clearly taking a stance on a theological issue, I did notice that, even if I don't have the religious history background to know much about those issues, and I suppose those held a certain amount of interest to me, yes. Unfortunately he has a tendency of beating you around the head with it and going on about the things at length.

And what about the astronomy bit? Did you find that quite fascinating too? 

I wonder whether Yates might have a good reading about that section. She groups Milton and Shakespeare with Spenser as a pro-renaissance writer whose sympathies lie with the esoteric tendencies of protestantism. And when she talks about Spenser she makes a lot of noise about his use of the planets. It did not occur to me to think of it before, so I don't know whether it would fit, but it might be interesting.
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John Milton - Paradise Lost (and Paradise Regained)
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Re: John Milton - Paradise Lost (and Paradise Regained)
11/01/2011 11:55:35 PM
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Wow. <<<<Should be over there<<<<
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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
12/01/2011 06:50:30 PM
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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*
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