376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
The History of Literature
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John Milton's on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
John milton's poem on the morning of christ's nativity gives you a sense of that visionary quality. It's intelligence, but it's a wilder intelligence than you might expect from our poet. We talked about this with stephen mitchell a little bit, how compressed the actual narrative of the nativitys in the bible is. Theyre a handful of facts, or factual details, and we have added to them over the centuries, embroidered new threads into that narrative. So we have a version in our mind that is only hinted at in the bible, just a few details that we've turned into a full picture,. Full tapestry in our mental picture of what happened
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