Schedule of Discussions

Th, September 3 The Opening Invocation of Paradise Lost (Book I, lines 1-26).

T, September 8 Rivers, APolitical and Religious Issues in the Time of Milton@; AMasson, AA Brief Life of Milton (NORTON, 307-13, 313-49). AOn the Morning of Christ=s Nativity@

(Carey, pp. 101-16)

Th, Sept. 10 AOn Shakespeare,@ AL=Allegoro,@ AIl Penseroso,@ AAt a Solemn Music@ (Carey, pp. 126-27, 134-51).

T, Sept. 15 Sonnets 7, 8-10, 11, 12-13, 14, ATo Cromwell,@ ATo Vane,@ 16, 15-19 (Carey, pp.

152, 288-92, 307, 294-97, 300-01, 328-33, 341-48). Please read especially closely the sonnets that begin "How soon hath Time," "When I consider," "Avenge, O Lord," and "Methought I saw my late espoused saint." (We will reread some of the other sonnets later in the semester in connection with the situations that may have occasioned them.)

Th, Sept. 17, Comus (Carey).

T, Sept. 22 Holiday: Rosh Hashanah

Th, Sept. 24 Comus (continued)

T, Sept. 29 Lycidas (Carey); Norbrook=s essay (packet).

Th, October 1 ADomestic Liberty@: The Politics of Marriage and Divorce: ADoctrine and

Discipline of Divorce,@ 1644. Please read the entire tract, both the abridged version, in Patrides, and the chapters he omits, in the packet.

T, October 6 Holiday

Th, October 8 domestic liberty continued: Lady Eleanor Davies, AHer Blessing@; Turner, The Intelligible Flame,@ ANyquist, AGendered Subjectivity@Ball in packet. A rereading of Milton=s two divorce sonnets (Carey).

T, October 13 Holiday

Th, October 15 APersonal Liberty@: Areopagitica (Patrides)

T, October 20 Areopagitica (Patrides); AOn the New Forcers of Conscience@ (Carey); Jameson, Religion and Ideology@ (packet)

Th, October 22 Williams, excerpts from The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644 (packet)

T, October 27 AVoices of the English Civil War@ (packet)

Th, October 29 Images of Kingship and Regicide: The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Feb. 1649 (Patrides). Helgerson, AMilton Reads the King=s Book@ (packet)

T, November 3 Literature and Politics in the Commonwealth and Protectorate: a rereading of Milton=s political sonnets (Carey). Andrew Marvell, Poems, especially AHoratian Ode,@ AFirst Anniversary of the Government. . .,@ AA Poem upon the death of. . . Cromwell,@ ATom May=s Death.@

Th, November 5 Marvell continued: AOn a Drop of Dew,@ ABermudas,@ ATo his Coy Mistress,@ AThe Definition of Love,@ AThe Garden,@ AOn Mr. Milton=s Paradise Lost.@

T, November 10 Endgame for the Revolution: AThe Ready and Easy Way@ (Patrides)

Th, November 12 Paradise Lost, Book 1 (Norton)

T, November 17 Book 1 (continued); Bloom, AMilton and His Precursors@ (Norton)

Th, November 19 PL, Book 2; Adams, AA Little Look into Chaos@ (Norton)

T, November 24 PL, Book 3

Th, November 26 Thanksgiving Holiday

T, December 1 Book 3 continued; Empson, AMilton=s God@ (Norton)

Th, December 3 PL, Book 4

T, December 8 Book 4 continued; Froula, AWhen Eve Reads Milton@ (packet)