December 19, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY
A Calvin College professor is part of a book on John Milton that has been
honored by the Milton Society of America (which has been around almost 60 years
and includes almost 600 members).
David Urban, a professor of English, contributed a chapter to "Milton's
Legacy," a book that recently won the Irene
Samuel award for the most distinguished multiauthor collection of essays in
2005. The award will be presented by the Milton Society of America at the
annual dinner held on December 28 at the Modern Language Association meeting in
Philadelphia.
Urban continuted an essay titled "'Out of His Treasurie Things New and Old':
Milton's Parabolic Householder in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De
Doctrina Christiana."
Urban teaches Milton at Calvin (the college will again offer English 347, a
course on Milton, this spring) and he says he believes the British author, who
was born almost 400 years ago, still has much to offer today's generation of
college students.
"Milton wrestles with timeless theological questions concerning the fall and
redemption of humanity," he says, "and he continually struggles with the
matter of presenting himself rightly before God."
Milton's most famous works are Paradise Lost (which he wrote when he was blind
and impoverished) followed by Paradise Regained, together with Samson
Agonistes, a drama on the Greek model, in 1671.
Contact David Urban at 616-526-8646
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