From: John Hale [John.Hale@stonebow.otago.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 11:36 PM To: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Coordinating Milton Marathons Anything like this is very hard to coordinate, as I know from bitter experience; so the very best of luck to anyone who tries to persuade others to modify existing arrangements which are working. If I may make some comments, I don't see a date yet which leaps out at me as convincing, self-evidently right - except for M's birthday and death-day. So instead might it be a date which means something in our present world rather than Milton's, and is not preempted? 1 May? United Nations Day? a solstice? Since there could be very compelling reasons why no one day is right for all of us, in our farflung and diverse places with our different calendars, might we instead or as well combine forces for something smaller and more symbolic, which does have the desired simultaneity and globality? We could use our individual, scattered marathons to recruit voices for the collaborative occasion. We could in fact read do the whole marathon across our time-zones: NZ does Book One, Australia and Japan do the next three, and so on. Some time-zones will be awkward, but others can cover those. And use the Net to report on how it went, while it is happening. Some will find the whole idea juvenile, I know. But childishness can be fun, and as dr Seuss said, fun is good. Certainly anyone who like me is trying to sell the idea locally that Milton is serious fun to a hostile environment would see PR potential in a bit of silly fun like this whole idea. JKH From: Bob Linn [Rlinn1@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:34 AM To: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Help with Dore's Milton Look on www.bookfinder.com for John Milton, Paradise Lost (Keyword - Dore) and you will get a large listing of different editions with Dore illustrations. The most expensive, which seems to be the first, is $450.00. There are other copies cheaper. Bob Linn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Blevins" To: Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:33 AM Subject: Help with Dore's Milton > > To all: > > A dear friend of mine has recently had his collection of poems accepted > for publication; he loves Milton and I wanted to try and find for him a > first or second edition of Dore's illustrated Paradise Lost. I know the > illustrations well, but I don't know what to look for in determining the > edition. Could someone let me know who published the first edition, what > year, editor, etc. and possibly, if you could, let me know what a > reasonable price is to pay for one of the early editions. Thanks so much. > > Jacob > > From: Sara Vandenberg [saravdb@u.washington.edu] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 12:09 PM To: Jacob Blevins Cc: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Help with Dore's Milton Check Bibliofind.com for many dealers offering editions of PL that include Dore's illustrations. The first US edition is being sold by one dealer for $65, but you'll find many to choose from. Search by author ("Milton), title (Paradise Lost), and additional word (Dore). Each book dealer gives a thorough description of the book and its condition. Sara van den Berg On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jacob Blevins wrote: > > To all: > > A dear friend of mine has recently had his collection of poems accepted > for publication; he loves Milton and I wanted to try and find for him a > first or second edition of Dore's illustrated Paradise Lost. I know the > illustrations well, but I don't know what to look for in determining the > edition. Could someone let me know who published the first edition, what > year, editor, etc. and possibly, if you could, let me know what a > reasonable price is to pay for one of the early editions. Thanks so much. > > Jacob > > From: Gina Hausknecht [GHAUSKNE@coe.edu] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:03 PM To: milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Re: Coordinating Milton Marathons It took me several years to convince the Coe College English Club to sponsor a Paradise Lost marathon. They are enthusiastic about the idea of group readings but their choices have not been wildly ambitious (Alice in Wonderland, The Knight of the Burning Pestle). I finally talked them into Paradise Lost this past January and it was a remarkable experience. We started at 10:00 on a Sunday morning and finished around 9:00, with over 30 people joining in over the course of the day, including students, faculty, the chaplain, alumni, and a couple of community members who heard about it on the radio. (We were visited by a local television crew but were beat out of the human interest slot by a 9-year-old animal-lover who asked for donations to the humane society in lieu of birthday presents.) Everyone read, taking turns, and the reading varied widely. One of the very best readers was blind, reading the text in Braille off her laptop. She is a musician and was dazzled by this, her first encounter with the poem; I found this one of several moving aspects of the day. We provided three meals, snacks, and apples, and also props, to help readers get into the spirit of their roles and to help drop-ins figure out what was happening (large pitchfork for Satan, small pitchfork for the other fallen angels, a flower lei for Eve, ivy and a branch of apple blossoms to indicate Eden, and a halo for the inhabitants of heaven which sparked a debate over whether the God-reader should don it or not). Everyone was very pleased with the poem and themselves but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to institute it as an annual event at this small school. I do like Andrew's idea for creating a reading-out-loud community---even if we can't hit on a Bloomsday equivalent, what about a Milton month? Gina Hausknecht Coe College >>> "Lew Kaye-Skinner" 06/29/00 09:00AM >>> I'm sure I'm not the only one on the list with a calendar, but I did check the dates Andrew Fleck gave us for 2001. 24 Feb is a Saturday. 13 Mar is a Tuesday. 26 Mar is a Monday. On 06/28/2000, at 4:07 PM, Derek Wood wrote: >Andrew Fleck wrote: > > > ....Perhaps next year we could pick an important spring date from Milton's > > life and then coordinate the many disparate marathons.... > >Milton took his B.A. on 26 March 1629. He married Elizabeth Minshull on 24 >February 1663. Appointed Secretary for Foreign Tongues 13 March 1649. >Unfortunately, Areopagitica was published in November. The contract with the >printer for PL was signed on 27 April 1667. Not very exciting moments. The >first might interest students with graduation coming up. > Best wishes, > Derek Wood.. From: Cynthia A. Gilliatt [gilliaca@jmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 9:07 AM To: Creamer, Kevin Cc: 'Milton-L@Richmond.edu' Subject: Re: FW: The Seventh International Milton Symposium, University of This sounds wonderful! Should the acting company you are thinking of not be able to work things out, you might consider talking w/Shenandoah Shakespeare, now quartered in Staunton and building a new playing spaced based on the Blackfriars theater - they mostly do Shakes, but do venture to other writers from time to time - Marlowe and others - if that would be of interest as a backup, e-mail me and I will get you their contact information. Cynthia -- JMU SAFE ZONES PARTICIPANT Cynthia A. Gilliatt English Department MSC 1801 James Madison University Harrisonburg VA 22807 gilliaca@jmu.edu http://raven.jmu.edu/~gilliaca/ 540-568-3762 or 6202 From: Creamer, Kevin [kcreamer@richmond.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:27 PM To: 'Milton-L@Richmond.edu' Subject: FW: Claremont Early Modern Studies Graduate Symposium [Moderator's note: I am forwarding this from Professor Fitzgerald. - Kevin.] -----Original Message----- From: Howard Z. Fitzgerald [mailto:howiefitzgerald@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:24 PM To: KCreamer@richmond.edu Subject: CFP: Claremont Early Modern Studies Graduate Symposium Claremont Early Modern Studies Graduate Symposium March 17 - 18, 2001 The New Science: Emerging Viewpoints in the Early Modern Era Call for Papers: Graduate students are invited to submit one page abstracts for papers of 20-minute reading length on any topic related to science in the Early Modern Era (1450-1750). We welcome submissions from students in the humanities and related disciplines. Proposals for complete panels will also be considered. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Ethnography Cartography Civil Law (as opposed to common law) Economics (market exchange, notions of credit in national and international trade) Architecture and engineering. Landscape architecture Horticulture Estate planning Mathematics Alchemy (Magic, astrology) Music, fine arts Astronomy Navigation methodology in science intersecting science and religion Submissions should be postmarked or sent via email or fax by November 7, 2000 to: Claremont Graduate University Humanities Center Attn: Early Modern Studies Group 740 N. College Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-6163 Phone: (909) 621-8612 Fax: (909) 607-1221 Email: Howard.Fitzgerald@cgu.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From: Roy Flannagan [flannaga@oak.cats.ohiou.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:03 AM To: owner-milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: Query Where did the idea come from that Mary Powell Milton's family was Roman Catholic? I have read that somewhere, but so far as I know it is unsubstantiated rumor. Richard Powell was undoubtedly on the King's side, and he was undoubtedly a deadbeat debtor, and Mrs. Powell was undoubtedly a crabby lady who did not like her son-in-law one bit, but was the family Papist as well? Roy Flannagan