Milton
Published: Fall 2007
Description
This class is a study of Milton’s poetry, with attention paid to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry. Throughout the course, Professor Rogers explores the advantages and limitations of a diverse range of interpretive techniques and theoretical concerns in Milton scholarship and criticism. Lectures include close readings of lyric and epic poetry, prose, and letters; biographical inquiries; examinations of historical and political contexts; and engagement with critical debates.
Course Takeaways
- Learn how Milton used his prodigious literary and intellectual powers to influence, rethink, and completely restructure large swaths of western culture from history, to grammar, to philosophy, to religion.
Meet the Instructors
John Rogers is a Professor of English at Yale University and former Master of Yale’s Berkeley College. Having received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale, Rogers is the author of The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton, which was awarded the Modern Language Association First Book Prize as well as the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Prize for Best Book. He is currently working on a book on Milton’s relationship to antitrinitarian heresy, entitled Milton and the Heresy of Individualism.
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