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Paradise Lost, Book I - Analysis and Context

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This lecture analyzes the invocation to Paradise Lost alongside Milton’s radical poetics, theology, and historical context. It examines his use of enjambment, double syntax, unrhymed verse, and monist ideas about angelic bodies.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. "Paradise Lost": The Fall of Adam, Eve and the Rebel Angels
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- Chapter 2. "Paradise Lost": A Powerful Defense against Lateness
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- Chapter 3. "First": A Strategy of Retrospective Anticipation
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- Chapter 4. "Paradise Lost": Radical Theology
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- Chapter 5. "Paradise Lost": Thoughts Unconstrained by Grammar
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