Friday, January 27, 2012

Cunning verbal music ...

... Robert Graves's "John Milton Muddles Through" | The New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


The genius of the English language, whether transplanted to Wales, Scotland, Ireland or America, remains literal, logical, and anti-hypothetical. No sensitive poet or critic can accept without a blush Milton’s pastoral affectations ...

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