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18. Paradise Lost, Books IX-X
Added 64 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This second lecture on the Fall traces Milton's use of the word wander, in all of its forms, across the poem. The transformation of wander ...
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11. The Miltonic Smile
Added 63 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Milton's characteristic use of simile is explored in Books One and Two of Paradise Lost. Particular attention is paid to how Milton's simil...
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22. Paradise Regained, Books III-IV
Added 75 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) In this second lecture on Paradise Regained, the three temptations are examined and Milton's unusual departure from their account in the Go...
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15. Paradise Lost, Books V-VI
Added 68 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) The description of human sexual hierarchy in Book Four of Paradise Lost is contrasted with the depiction of angelic hierarchy in Book Five....
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12. The Blind Prophet
Added 49 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This lecture focuses on the invocation to light at the beginning of Book Three of Paradise Lost. Milton's factual and figurative understand...
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2. The Infant Cry Of God
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Milton's early ode, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (1629) is presented and discussed. The author's preoccupation with his standing a...
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14. Paradise Lost, Book IV
Added 81 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This lecture examines Book Four's depiction of Adam and Eve and the sexual politics of life in Eden. Seventeenth-century political theory, ...
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21. Paradise Regained, Books I-II
Added 71 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This lecture treats the first two books of the sequel to Paradise Lost, Paradise Reqained. The difference in style and subject matter is de...
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23. Samson Agonistes
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This introduction to Samson Agonistes focuses on a psycho-sexual reading of the poem, with particular emphasis placed on the poem's peculia...
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24. Samson Agonistes (cont.)
Added 49 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) In the final lecture of the course, the analysis of Samson Agonistes comes to a conclusion with an exploration of the poem's sexual imagery...
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6. Lycidas
Added 67 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Milton's poem "Lycidas" is discussed as an example of pastoral elegy and one of Milton's first forays into theodicy. The poetic speaker's p...
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10. God And Mammon: The Wealth Of Literary Memory
Added 59 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This second lecture on Paradise Lost looks at hell and its inhabitants, as depicted in Books I and II. Milton's struggle both to match and ...
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19. Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII
Added 73 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Books Eleven and Twelve of Paradise Lost and their radical departure from the poem's previous style are discussed. The transformation of Mi...
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7. Lycidas (cont.)
Added 63 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) In this second lecture on "Lycidas," moments of intrusion and revelation are closely examined. Saint Peter's protracted sermon is connected...
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13. Paradise Lost, Book III
Added 71 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) In this second lecture on Book Three of Paradise Lost, the dialogue between God and the Son in heaven is explored with particular attention...
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20. Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII (cont.)
Added 68 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) In this final lecture on Paradise Lost, Book Twelve's justification for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden is examined alongside...
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16. Paradise Lost, Books VII-VIII
Added 69 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This lecture on Books Seven and Eight of Paradise Lost focuses on Milton's account of the Creation. The poet's persistent interest in the i...
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3. Credible Employment
Added 56 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This lecture examines the role and meanings of the word vocation in Milton's life-long meditation on (and concern for) what it means to be ...
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5. Poetry And Marriage
Added 57 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) This second lecture on Milton's masque probes its complex depictions of virginity and chastity. The version of the masque performed in 1634...
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8. Areopagitica
Added 60 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Milton's political tract Areopagitica is discussed at length. The author's complicated take on state censorship and licensing, both practic...
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9. Paradise Lost, Book I
Added 59 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) The invocation to Paradise Lost is read and analyzed. Milton's tenure as Latin Secretary under the Puritan government, his subsequent impri...
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4. Poetry And Virginity
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Milton's first publication, A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, is examined. Milton's vision of a poet's heaven in "Ad Patrem," paired with ...
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1. Introduction: Milton, Power, And The Power Of Milton
Added 68 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) An introduction to John Milton: man, poet, and legend. Milton's place at the center of the English literary canon is asserted, articulated,...
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17. Paradise Lost, Book IX
Added 60 Views / 0 LikesMilton (ENGL 220) Book Nine and the depiction of the Fall are presented. Adam and Eve's dialogue -- especially their perspectives on labor, temptation, and t...
