| Unit name | Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGLM3027 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Mason |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
One book of Paradise Lost is studied in detail each week. Particular attention is paid (1) to Milton&?s materials (including Hebrew verse, Homer, Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare, and Spenser), and (2) to various poetical, crucial and scholarly responses of contemporaries and successors, (including Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Voltaire, Richard Bentley, Jonathan Richardson, Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, and T.S. Eliot). The popular and critical success of Paradise Lost is compared with some comparative failures (including poems by Abraham Cowley, Samuel Wesley, and Richard Blackmore, and some attempts to render the poem in heroic couplets or in prose).
