Comments on: Paging Dr. Sawaya: Milton is hip again http://michellerafter.com/2008/06/26/paging-dr-sawaya-milton-is-hip-again/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Freelancing in the Digital Age Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michelle V. Rafter http://michellerafter.com/2008/06/26/paging-dr-sawaya-milton-is-hip-again/comment-page-1/#comment-58064 Michelle V. Rafter Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:39:26 +0000 http://michellerafter.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-58064 Thank you. I had Dr. Sawaya as a college freshman. He was definitely one of the best teachers I've ever encountered. Michelle Thank you. I had Dr. Sawaya as a college freshman. He was definitely one of the best teachers I’ve ever encountered.

Michelle

]]> By: anonymous http://michellerafter.com/2008/06/26/paging-dr-sawaya-milton-is-hip-again/comment-page-1/#comment-57987 anonymous Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:43:57 +0000 http://michellerafter.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-57987 Thank you for such a wonderful, vivid portrait of an excellent inspiring professor. Thank you for such a wonderful, vivid portrait of an excellent inspiring professor.

]]> By: Ted Humphrey http://michellerafter.com/2008/06/26/paging-dr-sawaya-milton-is-hip-again/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Ted Humphrey Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:48:52 +0000 http://michellerafter.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-385 I also was one of Doctor Sawaya's students from those days of the 1970's when the price of gas was going up, and we were exploring strange alternative energies like solar and wind so we wouldn't have to be dependent upon unstable places like the middle east. Doctor Sawaya (and his dissertation poet, Wallace Stevens) and John Milton were and are inspirations of having a day job and still staying close to the world of literature. So even though I have a day job, I am teaching literature at the local community college, and next week we will be studying Paradise Lost, and many of Doctor Sawaya's insights will find their way into my lecture. (And I will actually give him occasional credit) There is a marvelous commodious vicus of ricirculation to the life of literature . . . Thanks for the reminder of a great teacher and great literature. I also was one of Doctor Sawaya’s students from those days of the 1970′s when the price of gas was going up, and we were exploring strange alternative energies like solar and wind so we wouldn’t have to be dependent upon unstable places like the middle east.

Doctor Sawaya (and his dissertation poet, Wallace Stevens) and John Milton were and are inspirations of having a day job and still staying close to the world of literature. So even though I have a day job, I am teaching literature at the local community college, and next week we will be studying Paradise Lost, and many of Doctor Sawaya’s insights will find their way into my lecture. (And I will actually give him occasional credit) There is a marvelous commodious vicus of ricirculation to the life of literature . . .

Thanks for the reminder of a great teacher and great literature.

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