From:	Derek N.C. Wood [dwood@stfx.ca]
Sent:	Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:40 PM
To:	milton-l@richmond.edu
Subject:	Re: C18-L posting on Reader Response to PL after September 11

 >>  Forty minutes later we found a route
 >> >(via "all the heav'nly choir stood mute") back to the opening books and
 >> >what one called Satan's plan for "a terrorist attack" and someone else
 >> >corrected, "covert operation."
 >
 > >I'm wondering if other list-members have been similarly surprised?

What would they make of Samson Agonistes in which a suicidal terrorist, driven
by his all consuming religious conviction, uses overwhelming force to destroy
the most sacred, symbolic building of the enemy nation, destroying thousands of
his enemies the only way now possible - by dying with them. Tragically 
ironical:
the honoured hero is an Israelite striking at the conquering, colonising power
which is, in effect, Palestinian. The politics Milton dramatises are 
startlingly
relevant: the politics of nationalism, imperialism, colonialism and 
enslavement,
the morality of  terrorist violence against an apparently unbeatable overlord,
the politics of subversion, espionage and counter-espionage, just for a start.
From:	melsky [melsky@email.msn.com]
Sent:	Friday, September 28, 2001 9:59 AM
To:	MILTON-L
Subject:	CUNY Fall Renaissance Colloquium, Oct 19


[with apologies for cross-posting]

CUNY Graduate School
365 Fifth Avenue
Between 34-35 Streets
New York City

In the past weeks we have lived in the shadow of a terrible event. This =
is a time to reaffirm those things to which we are committed. We look =
forward to seeing the familiar faces of friends and colleagues and to =
welcome newcomers to our program.

CUNY Renaissance Studies
Fall Colloquium


The Material Foundations of Early Modern Texts:
 >From Manuscript Manipulations to Print Technologies I=20




John Monfasani (SUNY-Albany), "The Power of Script: Nicolaus Scutellius' =
Cabalistic Hand"

Arthur Marotti (Wayne State University), "The Personal Poetic Anthology =
in Private Manuscript Collections"

October 19, 2001
Segal Theatre
4:00-6:00pm


Reception sponsored by Renaissance Society of America

* * *

The colloquium will continue next Spring with

Roger Chartier (=C9cole des Hautes =C9tudes en Sciences Sociales, =
Paris), "Don Quixote in the Printing Shop"

Robert Darnton (Princeton University), "Books and Orality in18th-Century =
Paris: Mlle Bonafon and the Intimate Life of Louis XV"

February 15, 2001
Elebash Recital Hall
4:00-6:00pm

Presented by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Center =
for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate School, in collaboration with the =
Ph.D. Programs in English, French, History, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian =
Literatures, the Italian Specialization in Comparative Literature; and =
the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences

Series organizer: Martin Elsky, Coordinator, CUNY Renaissance Studies =
Certificate Program, melsky@gc.cuny.edu

From:	KSL1 [ksl1@stargate.pitt.edu]
Sent:	Friday, September 28, 2001 9:26 AM
To:	milton-l-richmond.edu
Subject:	Eve

Hello colleagues,

A few years ago I copied following poem from this list but never managed to
find out who the author is.  Do any of you recognize these lines?  Might one
of you know their source?

History

Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wait for love,
must have leaned some sleepness nights
alone against the garden wall
and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild
and wished to trade in all of Eden
to have been but a child.

In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace,
that she might have a story of herself to tell
in some other place.




Kimberly S. Latta
Assistant Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh
509D Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: (412) 624-6528
Fax: (412) 624-6639
e-mail: ksl1@stargate.pitt.edu