Milton
Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Rogers
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Rogers
Updated On 02 Feb, 19
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
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Milton (ENGL 220)
This second lecture on the Fall traces Miltons use of the word wander, in all of its forms, across the poem. The transformation of wander from its pre-fallen sense to its more nefarious incarnation following the transgression is examined closely. The wider literary context of the concept of wandering, with particular emphasis placed on its importance to the romance genre, is briefly discussed. The reductive forces of Book Nine -- particularly its tendency to transform the moral ambivalence, disputed sexual hierarchy, and general poetic ambiguity of earlier books into more definitive representations -- are considered, with the lecture ultimately suggesting that the poem begins to turn away in Book Nine from many of its proto-feminist elements.
0000 - Chapter 1. Introduction The Fall, Language and Literature
0633 - Chapter 2. Miltons Motivations for writing about The Fall
1441 - Chapter 3. Tracing the History of the Word "Wandering" as it Progresses through the Poem
3131 - Chapter 4. A New Understanding of Eve
4107 - Chapter 5. "Paradise Lost" Book X The Consequences of The Fall
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpopen.yale.educourses
This course was recorded in Fall 2007.
Sam
Sep 12, 2018
Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.
Dembe
March 29, 2019
Great course. Thank you very much.