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Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
Dawn Potter
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Description for Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
Paperback. Explores the author's personal response to John Milton and "Paradise Lost", tracing the intersections between a seventeenth-century biblical epic and the routine joys and tragedies of domestic life in contemporary rural Maine. Num Pages: 144 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
This is the story of a writer's intense engagement with a masterwork of Western literature. One winter morning, poet Dawn Potter sat down at her desk in Harmony, Maine, and began copying out the opening lines of John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"". Her intent was to spend half an hour with a poem she had never liked, her goal to transcribe a page or two. Maybe she would begin to appreciate the poet's art, though she had no real expectations that the exercise would change her mind about the poem. Yet what began as a whim turned rapidly into an obsession, ... Read more
This is the story of a writer's intense engagement with a masterwork of Western literature. One winter morning, poet Dawn Potter sat down at her desk in Harmony, Maine, and began copying out the opening lines of John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"". Her intent was to spend half an hour with a poem she had never liked, her goal to transcribe a page or two. Maybe she would begin to appreciate the poet's art, though she had no real expectations that the exercise would change her mind about the poem. Yet what began as a whim turned rapidly into an obsession, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558497016
SKU
V9781558497016
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About Dawn Potter
DAWN POTTER is the author of two poetry collections, most recently How the Crimes Happened. She is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and lives in Harmony, Maine, with her husband and two sons.
Reviews for Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
Potter writes beautifully. Her prose is as clear as the song of a bell bird. She knows how to use detail, quotations from Milton but also domestic detail, for this is a book about living sensibly more than about Milton. It made me ponder my life as well as literature, as a good book should do but few books do.... ... Read more