Jack Raymond Baker
Ph.D. Student, Medieval Literature
Primary Areas: Old & Middle English Literatures & Languages
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
Purdue Univeristy
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Email: jackrbaker@purdue.edu
Spring 2009 Office Hours:
Heavilon Hall, Room 309 E
Fridays, 10-12
"In Paradise perchance the eye may stray
from gazing upon everlasting Day
to see the day illumined, and renew
from mirrored truth the likeness of the True.
Then looking on the Blessed Land 'twill see
that all is as it is, and yet made free:
Salvation changes not, nor yet destroys,
garden nor gardener, children nor their toys.
Evil it will not see, for evil lies
not in God's picture but in crooked eyes,
not in the source but in malicious choice,
and not in sound but in the tuneless voice.
In Paradise they look no more awry;
and though they make anew, they make no lie.
Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
and poets shall have flames upon their head,
and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
there each shall choose for ever from the All."
—J. R. R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia