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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Good First SF stories
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 12:21:47 EDT
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> One of the most interesting remarks in the critical works of T.S. Eliot is that
> John Milton did greater harm to English poetry than any poet who ever lived.
> His tortured fake-Latin syntax was considered terrifically Classical by some
> influential people, and was emulated by poets who might have written great
> straightforward work in English
> 
> Judith Abrahms
> {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!proper!judith

I've heard that before.  I can't really dispute it.  I CAN say
that I read Milton for pleasure, and this is true of few other
poets.  It is not, for example, true of Eliot.

		-- SKZB