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Milton

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Rogers

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction: Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton - The Infant Cry of God - Credible Employment - Poetry and Virginity - Poetry and Marriage - Lycidas - Areopagitica - Paradise Lost, Book - God and Mammon: The Wealth of Literary Memory - The Miltonic Smile - The Blind Prophet

Includes

Lecture 12: The Blind Prophet

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Lecture Details

Milton (ENGL 220)

This lecture focuses on the invocation to light at the beginning of Book Three of Paradise Lost. Miltons factual and figurative understanding of his blindness is traced through his letters, Sonnet XXII, and the later epic Samson Agonistes. Particular emphasis is placed on the transformation of blindness in the corpus from a spiritual punishment to a poetic gift. The implications of biographical interpretations of literature are also touched upon.

0000 - Chapter 1. Introduction Miltons Blindness
0447 - Chapter 2. How Milton and His Contemporaries Interpreted His Blindness
1735 - Chapter 3. Light and the Creation Account Comparing Milton and The Book of Genesis
3909 - Chapter 4. Blindness Explored in Samson Agonistes

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educourses

This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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