November 21, 2008
St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, and Prevails
When Richard J. DuRocher, a professor of English at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minn., told one of his classes that he was running a marathon, everybody cheered. Then he told them what kind of marathon: a straight-through, out-loud reading of John Milton's Paradise Lost — all 12 books of it, from Satan's fall to Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden of Eden.
If that sounds eccentric, even masochistic, consider that December 9 is the poet's 400th birthday. What better
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