Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northrop Frye tells a good story about how he came to teach the Bible. When he was still a junior instructor at Toronto University he talked to the chairman of his department, complaining that he wasn't able to teach his students Milton's Paradise Lost. The students weren't receptive. And he suggested teaching them the Bible instead. The chairman asked Frye how he could possibly teach students the Bible if they didn't know the difference between pharisees and philistines. Frye replied that it probably didn't make any difference considering the society they were going into...
...Milton S. Katz...
...sound of the U.S. Bicentennial should be brighter, and it will certainly be native. Only a handful of European composers have been commissioned to write anniversary pieces. Most notable among them: Poland's Krzystof Penderecki, who is doing an opera based on Milton's Paradise Lost for Chicago's Lyric Opera. Right now there are several hundred American composers, some working up to 20 hours a day on music commissioned during and for the Bicentennial. The big names, like Aaron Copland, have been forced to turn down requests by the dozen. With millions available in grants...
...fresco another Sistine in homage to Shakespeare. Only a few studies for this project survive; it was too grandiose and expensive to be carried out. His fixation on Michelangelo was such that when painting Sin, Pursued by Death (1794-96), one of the pictures he made to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost, Fuseli appropriated Michelangelo's Adam for the pose of Sin's voluptuous torso (see color page). That was about as unsuitable a use of the Sistine as one could imagine...
...general it was Shakespeare, not Milton, who gave Fuseli his big themes of blood, darkness, prophecy and witchcraft, those unfailing ingredients of the romantic sublime. Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream were his favorite sources, though he also illustrated Lear. Hamlet and some of the histories. If the results, like Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers...