On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>>> Overall, I think it is the most perfect poem in the English language. I mean if there has to be one such.
>> Keats's "To Autumn"? Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving"? Lots of competition!
>
> I have to say that Paradise Lost pisses all over this shit. really.
I wouldn't put it that way. Different scales, different genres. PL is fucking terrific though. I happened to start reading it a few months ago on my iPhone when my car was being fixed - hadn't looked at it in 30 years. Amazing.
Doug