Course details

Name: ENGL - 343

Title: MILTON

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2020

Credits: 3

Description:
This course concerns the poetry and prose of John Milton, one of the single most important authors in the history of the English language. Born in London in 1608, Milton lived through an astonishing and tumultuous period of literary, historical, political, and religious change. Milton, however, did not just live through this period of great change; he participated in its changes, largely through his writing, and he did so more profoundly and extensively than any English writer before or since.

In this course we will read all of Milton’s major works of poetry – including /Paradise Lost/, /Paradise Regained/, and /Samson Agonistes/ – and we will also read several of his most important works of prose, including his famous treatise against censorship, /Areopagitica/. Questions including the relationship between literature and language, between sight and sound, between text and context, between religion and politics, between radicalism and conservatism, and between freedom and servitude will receive extensive consideration, as will questions pertaining to the study of women and gender, subjects on which Milton’s works have had a profound effect.

As Milton’s Satan famously intones, “Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.” In other words: join us!

Last updated on By Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Is course canceled: No