ENGL 423

Fall 2017

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Milton
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
40365
Lecture-Discussion
1G
9:30AM -10:45AM
TR
Armory
Perry, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
This course examines the life and work of the hugely influential and inarguably great poet John Milton (1608-1674). That is more complicated than it sounds, though, since in addition to the grand poems for which he is chiefly remembered, Milton wrote a wide variety of kinds of poetry and prose and was an active and engaged participant in an enormously turbulent stretch of British history. In addition to being a poet, he was at different times known to his contemporaries as a brilliant polemicist with an international audience, a government spokesman, a controversial religious thinker, a licentious divorcer, a heretic, and an old, blind outcast. In all of his writings, Milton grapples with a set of questions—about liberty, equality, patriotism, duty, marriage, gender, learning, faith, writing, aesthetics, citizenship, ethics etc.—that are powerfully interrelated for him and that are still of urgent concern to us in numerous ways. Students who read his writing with care in this class can expect to be challenged, enlightened, angered, and delighted by turns.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39495
Lecture-Discussion
1U
9:30AM -10:45AM
TR
Armory
Perry, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
This course examines the life and work of the hugely influential and inarguably great poet John Milton (1608-1674). That is more complicated than it sounds, though, since in addition to the grand poems for which he is chiefly remembered, Milton wrote a wide variety of kinds of poetry and prose and was an active and engaged participant in an enormously turbulent stretch of British history. In addition to being a poet, he was at different times known to his contemporaries as a brilliant polemicist with an international audience, a government spokesman, a controversial religious thinker, a licentious divorcer, a heretic, and an old, blind outcast. In all of his writings, Milton grapples with a set of questions—about liberty, equality, patriotism, duty, marriage, gender, learning, faith, writing, aesthetics, citizenship, ethics etc.—that are powerfully interrelated for him and that are still of urgent concern to us in numerous ways. Students who read his writing with care in this class can expect to be challenged, enlightened, angered, and delighted by turns.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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