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ENGL 220

Milton

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2007

Topics

  • Introduction: Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton
  • The Infant Cry of God
  • Credible Employment
  • Poetry and Marriage
  • Lycidas
  • Areopagitica
  • Paradise Lost, Book I
  • God and Mammon: The Wealth of Literary Memory
  • The Miltonic Simile
  • The Blind Prophet
  • Midterm Exam
  • Paradise Lost, Book III
  • Paradise Lost, Books V-VI
  • Paradise Lost, Books VII-VIII
  • Paradise Lost, Book IX
  • Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII
  • Paradise Lost, Books IX-X
  • Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII (cont.)
  • Paradise Regained, Books I-II
  • Paradise Regained, Books III-IV
  • Samson Agonistes
  • Samson Agonistes (cont.)
  • Final Exam

Readings

  • Hughes, Merritt, ed. John Milton. Complete Poems and Major Prose. Macmillan Publishing Company: New York, 1957.
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  • The Holy Bible: King James Version (optional)
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