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- W209121206 abstract "(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) ... in contempt, At one slight bound high overleaped all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. Paradise Lost 4 . 1 80- 1 83) The verbal flexibility characteristic of young bilingual1 and exemplified by Milton of St Paul's School came to manifest itself much more profoundly during his Cambridge years and beyond. In seventeenth-century Cambridge Latin functioned as University's voice, an official, institutionalized As such it would seem to fit definition of were it not for one important fact. Although it is certainly true that Latin constituted formal linguistic medium of, for example, encaenia, graduation, and university anthology,3 it also possessed a role that was in effect much more creatively pervasive than that typically assumed by an exogenous language. Crucially it was a language of performance, indeed a language in performance. For now a classical medium became revitalized as a vibrantly active and proactive neo-Latin voice, transcending merely functional to assume a central place in a Cambridge speech community. That Milton took his place upon a Cambridge stage that was both performative and essentially is attested by his anonymous biographer, who proclaims: At about eighteen yeers of age hee went to Christs College in Cambridge; where for his diligent study, his performance of exercises, and for choice Verses, written on occasions usually solemniz'd by Universities, as well as for his virtuous and sober life, hee was in high esteem with best of his time.4 In fact Milton's public exercises constituted, in words of John Hale, speech-acts5 whereby young undergraduate contributed to a wide variety of Cambridge genres, both performative and literary. And he so by participating in Latin debates and disputations, by writing act verses, and by composing voluntaries. But, as Edward Jones has noted, participation ... is not same thing as approval or endorsement. It is an important point, which can and should be taken further. For despite their superficial conformity to recognized academic convention, despite their apparent fulfillment of formalities attendant upon university occasion, Milton's Cambridge Latin compositions are far from conformist. Hale has acknowledged that Milton did at times overgo required, by doing new things or modifying a set genre,9 but on whole he tends to underestimate and hence to underplay ways in which unimaginative rigidity of university curriculum functioned somewhat paradoxically as a rather liberating experience for Lady of Christ's College.10 Furthermore it is precisely and consistently through medium of Latin that Milton seeks to transgress, to overleap established boundaries. This he achieves by means of overt interrogation and possible parody of established university practices, by his Latin poetry's imaginatively creative engagement with both Latin and vernacular intertexts, by linguistic experimentation, and by adoption of a tone that never fails to surprise. In all of this he seems to rejoice in an individualism that is not only unconformist, but audaciously irreverent at times. For Milton of Cambridge moreover composition of neo-Latin verse, the most intertextual poetry known to Europe, and a not insignificant way to gain attention and consequent preferment13 within a university community becomes an exploratory means of selfinterrogation central to an evolving self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. In a re-invention of Clark's phrase, John Milton Englishman become[s] a Roman ... of sorts,14 not only because he employs language of that ancient city and civilization,15 but also and especially because he uses it frequently to attack and to satirize an English institution and everything that that institution represents. …" @default.
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