>John Leonard says: "Milton addresses Eve in his own voice at PL 9 404-7,
>partly to chide, but mostly to express his pity for her bad decision to
>work alone," apparently objecting to Bert Hamilton's phrase "well-known
>persona." I think Bert is correct. How can we know Milton's own voice?
>He died before electronic recordings.
>
>Yours, Bill Godshalk
Bill,
I did not intend to object to anything Bert Hamilton said. Maybe I just
missed the point. Sorry if this is so. I do, however, think that Milton
has a distinctive voice, with or without electronic recordings. Absurd to
suppose that the printed page can create a voice? I don't think so,
especially not after reading Eric Griffiths's *The Printed Voice of
Victorian Poetry* (OUO, 1989).
Yours,
John Leonard
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