“It’s impossible to read King Lear or Hamlet without questioning the deepest human values. Because John Milton is a dead white man, the erudition of his poetry is discounted (or ignored). The political and religious issues he raises in ‘Paradise Lost’ would animate any discussion of democracy, terrorism and war, but raising questions is not the aim of much that passes for higher education. Milton’s debate of the devils over how to perpetuate the war against God, ‘which if not Victory is yet Revenge,’ has much to tell us about our own times. Students arrive on campus yearning to think big thoughts and often get political polemics from little professors with small minds.”
—Suzanne Fields
(hat tip: Patriot Post US)
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