Dr. Eric W. Nye Office Hours: MWF 2:10 - 3:00 pm and by appt., Hoyt Hall 310, 766-3244
Merritt Y. Hughes, ed. John Milton's Complete Poems and Major Prose (1957; rpt. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, cloth, 2003). 0-87220-678-5.
Dennis Danielson. The Cambridge Companion to Milton (Cambridge Univ. Press, paper, 2nd edn, 1999). 0521655439
Mon., 14 Jan.: Introduction, books, grades, policies. "Sonnet: How soon hath Time" (1632) and "Sonnet XIX: When I consider" (1652?) from handout. Merritt Y. Hughes, ed. John Milton’s Complete Poems and Major Prose (1957, 2003), pp. 76-77, 168.
Wed., 16 Jan.: Early Psalm paraphrases, early Latin poetry (esp. Elegy III), "At a Vacation Exercise in College," and "On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough," Hughes pp. 2-5, 5-29, 30-32, & 35-37. Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas (handout). "On Shakespeare," Hughes pp. & 63-64.
Fri., 18 Jan.: Later Latin poetry, "Song: on May Morning," "On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity," "The Passion," "On the University Carrier," "Another on the Same," and "An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester," Hughes pp. 32-35, 37-41, 41-50, 61-67.
Wed., 23 Jan.: Review
Fri., 25 Jan.: "L’Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," "Arcades,""On Time," "Upon the Circumcision," and "At a Solemn Music," Hughes pp. 67-82. Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia (1514). Rembrandt, Philosopher in Meditation (1632). Morseelse's Diptych (1660). Blake's Diptych (c. 1816).
Mon., 28 Jan.: "A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634 [Comus]," Hughes pp. 86-114. Cedric Brown, "Milton’s Ludlow Masque," Cambridge Companion pp. 25-38. Historical interpretation of monetary values.
Wed., 30 Jan.: Comus, continued.
Fri., 1 Feb.: Colin Burrow, "Poems 1645: the Future Poet," Cambridge Companion pp. 54-69.
Mon., 4 Feb.: "Lycidas," Hughes pp. 116-25. J. Martin Evans, "Lycidas," Cambridge Companion pp. 39-53.
Wed., 6 Feb.: Stephen B. Dobranski, "Milton’s Social Life," Cambridge Companion pp. 1-24.
Paper 1 assigned, due Fri., 22 Feb.
Mon., 11 Feb.: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1968), Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Oxford University Dramatic Society, part one.
Wed., 13 Feb.: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1968), Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Oxford University Dramatic Society, part two.
Fri., 15 Feb.: Later Psalm paraphrases, Hughes pp. 149-58 and 162-67. Typology. Windows of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (requires Java).
Mon., 18 Feb.: Italian and English sonnets, Hughes pp. 53-56, 140-45, 159-61, 167-71. R. F. Hall, "Milton’s Sonnets and his Contemporaries," Cambridge Companion pp. 98-112.
Wed., 20 Feb.: Of Education (1644), Hughes pp. 630-39.
Fri., 22 Feb.: Areopagitica (1644), Hughes pp. 716-49.
Paper 1 due.
Mon., 25 Feb.: The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce (1644), Hughes pp. 696-715.
Journals due.
Wed., 27 Feb.: Martin Dzelzainis, "Milton’s Politics" and Thomas N. Corns, "Milton’s Prose," Cambridge Companion pp. 70-83 and 84-97.
Fri., 29 Feb.: Review.
Mon., 3 Mar.: The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1648), Hughes pp. 750-80.
Wed., 5 Mar.: Selection from An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), Hughes pp. 690-95, and selections from The Second Defense of the People of England (1654), trans. Robert Fellowes (1806), Hughes pp. 817-38.
Review, Midterm Exam Part 1 distributed
Fri., 7 Mar.: Midterm Exam, Part 1 (take home essays) due
Midterm Exam, Part 2 (in class)
The expulsion. Albrecht Dürer, 1510. Toppan Library, University of Wyoming.
Mon., 10 Mar.: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, "The Genres of Paradise Lost" and John Leonard, "Language and Knowledge in Paradise Lost," Cambridge Companion pp. 113-29 and 130-43. Hughes, "Introduction," pp. 173-210. See The Iconography of Paradise Lost.
Wed., 12 Mar.: Paradise Lost, Book I, Hughes pp. 211-31.
Fri., 14 Mar.: Dennis Danielson, "The Fall and Milton's Theodicy," and John Carey, "Milton's Satan," Cambridge Companion pp. 144-74.
Mon., 24 Mar.: Paradise Lost, Book II, Hughes pp. 232-57.
Wed., 26 Mar.: Paradise Lost, Book III, Hughes pp. 257-76.
Paper 2 assigned, due 7April
Fri., 28 Mar.: Paradise Lost, Book IV, Hughes pp. 277-302.
Mon., 31 Mar.: Paradise Lost, Book V, Hughes pp. 302-23.
Wed., 2 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book VI, Hughes pp. 323-45.
Fri., 4 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book VII, Hughes pp. 345-62.
Mon., 7 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book VIII, Hughes pp. 362-77.
Paper 2 due
Wed., 9 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book IX, Hughes pp. 378-405.
Fri., 11 Apr.: Dennis Danielson, "The Fall and Milton's Theodicy," and John Carey, "Milton's Satan," Cambridge Companion pp. 144-59 and 160-74.
Paper 3 assigned, due 30 Apr.
Mon., 14 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book IX, continued.
Wed., 16 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book X, Hughes pp. 406-32.
Fri., 18 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book X, continued.
Mon., 21 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book X, continued.
Wed., 23 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book XI, Hughes pp. 432-53.
Fri., 25 Apr.: Paradise Lost, Book XII, Hughes pp. 454-69.
Journals due.
Mon., 28 Apr.: Paradise Regained (1667-70), Books I and II, Hughes pp. 471-505.
Wed., 30 Apr.: Paradise Regained, Books III and IV, Hughes pp. 505-30. Mary Ann Radzinowicz, "How Milton Read the Bible: the Case of Paradise Regained," Cambridge Companion pp. 202-18.
Paper 3 due
Fri., 2 May: Review.
Final Exam: Friday, 9 May, 1:15 pm - :15 pm, in our usual classroom.
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