376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
The History of Literature
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Is It Because You Need to Know a Lot to Understand a Poem?
Why is it that people will plunge into keats or other poets who are just as challenging, but find that there's something there that really speaks to them? And then they when it comes to milton, i don't know if they've never given him a try, or if their initial encounter with him as has put them off. They almost seem like it's just medicine, and there's nothing in there that anyone would actually want to read. Ye, i'm so curious about why that is. I think that that's torly right people think of paradise last. Or is it because he's so good that they think he's kind of perfect and never makes a mistake, and
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