#135a - The Work of John Milton: Yale's John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man

(00:00:00): Intro

(00:00:52): Milton and Power

(00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God

(01:33:38): Credible Employment

(02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity

(03:15:35): Poetry and Marriage

(04:02:57): Lycidas

(04:55:10): Lycidas Part II

(05:48:09): Areopagitica

(06:35:08): Paradise Lost Book I

(07:26:50): God and Mammon

(08:17:49): Miltonic Smile

(09:03:49): The Blind Prophet

(09:51:35): Paradise Lost Book III

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A study of Milton's poetry, with some attention to his literary sources, his contemporaries, his controversial prose, and his decisive influence on the course of English poetry.

Description courtesy of Yale University, presented Fall 2007, uploaded November 2008. I opted to split this otherwise 19 hour episode into two parts so Spotify can handle it. See 135b.

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Original YouTube Playlist (Milton with John Rogers): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2103FD9F9D0615B7

Original Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCourses⁠

John Rogers, Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, retired.

https://english.yale.edu/people/professors-emeritus/john-rogers⁠