Thank you for your interest in Milton and in Course 503..

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Course Outline for Fall 2006

Time and Place:  Tuesdays at 1440 in room EF28 (Main Faculty Block).

Week    Date               Class Content

1          19^th Sept          Introduction (Ad Patrem, "Nativity Ode")

2          26^th Sept          "On Shakespeare", Comus, "At a Solemn Music"

3          3^rd Oct             Presentation(s) 1

4          10^th Oct           "Lycidas" and other elegies

5          17^th Oct           Presentation(s) 2

6          24^th Oct           Religious Holiday – No Class.

7          1st Nov           "L'Allegro", "Il Penseroso", "How Soon Hath

Time"

8          7^th Nov            Presentation(s) 3         

9          14^th Nov          Mid-Term

10        21^st Nov         Paradise Lost Books I-IV

11        28^th Nov          Presentation(s) 4

12        5^th Dec            Paradise Lose Books V-VIII

13        12^th Dec          Paradise Lost Books IX-XII

14        19^th Dec          Samson Agonistes

15        26^th Dec          Paradise Regained

Presentation topics:

(1) Milton's neo-platonism and theology 

(2) Milton's Sonnets

(3) Milton's Poetic language

(4)  Milton's Prose

Mid-Term Paper:  Discuss the uses of native and classical imagery in Milton's Shorter poems.  This essay is to be written in 2 hours as your mid-term exam

Term Paper:  Identify one major difficulty that the subject matter of Paradise Lost presented to the poet, and discuss how the poem deals with it.  Give plentiful examples from the text.

Grading: Presentations and Participation 25%

                Mid-term exam 35%

                Term Paper 40%

Attendance is mandatory; you are automatically failed if you have 30% or more absence without medical reports

"… great bards beside,

In sage and solemn tunes have sung,

…

Where more is meant than meets the ear"