Bulletin of the College Conference on English in the Central Atlantic States, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Bulletin of the College Conference on English in the Central Atlantic States, Vol. 1: January, 1921; The Bible and the Classics as a Literary Background; Addresses Delivered at the Meeting of the Conference at the Johns Hopkins University on November 27, 1920 All teachers of English are familiar with the young man who admits no recognition when he comes upon such a line as "she would have ta´en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck;" with the other young man who hears behind Tennyson´s "Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows" no echo of Virgilian phrase; and with the third gentleman who is surprised that he should be expected to know whom Milton could possibly have had in mind when he spoke of "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed" from "the secret top of Oreb or of Sinai." These young people, for they are not all of one sex, are merely symbols of an ignorance which goes a long way towards making Milton - to mention the chief among many - a shut book to the modern world. There is a story that a professor at one of our largest universities discovered that no one in a group of Juniors and Seniors could identify Judas Iscariot; exasperated, he cried out: "Gentlemen, is there anyone in the room who has heard of Jesus Christ!" The fact that one student took the question seriously and raised his hand is humorous, if you like; but the story, as Carlyle would have said, is "significant of much." The obvious argument, drawn from the facts, is that English teachers should encourage, perhaps demand, at least a bowing acquaintance with the two chief sources of allusions in English literature. But this argument does not appeal to me, for two reasons. In the first place, though I agree that such acquaintance on the part of the student would help, it happens that the Classics which the majority of our students study do not by any means supply them with the information necessary to an identification of the greater number of the allusions in their English literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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