Serious stuff?

March 29, 2007

I fear it has been rather silly on here of late as I have sought refuge in entertainment and flippancy. It was pointed out to me some nights ago, that I may have let standards slip. I momentarily forgot that Chekhov wrote The Seagull.

To redress this balance, I am just wondering if anyone would care to read my 10,000 word dissertation on Milton’s Paradise Lost?

Comments

1. On March 29th, 2007 at 5:10 am
   Jude Says:
   

   Nope we’d rather read your ramblings and saucy bits ta Pip. If you’re looking for high-brow input – you’ve asked the cheap seats in me. Jx

2. On March 29th, 2007 at 11:44 am
   Nell Dixon Says:
   

   Paradise lost? Bleurgh, had to do that for A level and hated it.

3. On March 29th, 2007 at 11:51 am
   Phillipa Says:
   

   Nell, Jude – PL wasn’t my fave either and I think I got into a right old tangle trying to argue Milton wasn’t being sexist by portraying Eve as resposible for man’s fall from grace. Or something. It was a very, very long time ago. Seriously, I do love many of the classics. It would be sad if I didn’t, having read Eng Lit at Uni. I still love 19th century novels, Keats, Tennyson, Anglo Saxon poetry – all the unfashionable stuff. Shakespeare does it for me too, particularly Othello and Much Ado, but Milton was not really my thing. Paradise Lost has wonderful language but if you think it is impenetrable, you should read his polemic supporting unlicensed printing, Areopagitica. Or maybe not. 

4. On March 29th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
   Monica Says:
   

   Silly is good!

5. On March 31st, 2007 at 4:47 am
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Go on, post the first para! I want to see how you wrote when you were 18!!

   Rosy x

6. On March 31st, 2007 at 6:17 am
   Barbara Hannay Says:
   

   Yes, I’d like to see the beginning of it, Phillipa. I seem to remember writing a 3,000 word essay about PL a long, long time ago. Can’t remember anything about it now. I do remember making an utter mess of trying to argue that Thomas Hardy wasn’t a pessimist.

7. On March 31st, 2007 at 3:13 pm
   Phillipa Says:
   

   Rosy and Barb – mercifully it was written before computers were um…widely in use and I long ago threw it out.

   Barb – we did Mayor of Caterbrdige for A level. What laughs we had.;

8. On April 1st, 2007 at 5:54 am
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Excuses, excuses!

   R x