<p>“Well, that makes sense, but a good survey system goes up to contemporary literature, not just 1914 and then general American literature. The same would be true for British literature. Perhaps that’s what I noticed. No matter. I’ve already indicated that different schools have different pedagogy on purpose.”</p>
<p>When I took my Oxford degree, English literature stopped at 1792. (But “modern history” stopped at 1689, with the “Glorious Revolution”.) Of course now, much of the finest English literature is not written in England (or the U.S.) at all, but in India, Africa, Trinidad, Jamaica (places where, ironically, education is more particular about teaching the “English classics”.)</p>
<p>I imagine that if I were a Smithie, I’d try to take Milton with my old college mate Eric Reeves, not because of Milton, and not because of Eric’s teaching, but because of the extraordinary human being he has turned out to be.</p>
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