Milton

Here is a link to chapter four of Luke’s New Testament. Read the first 14 lines, the pertinent passage upon which Paradise Regained is based.

Following your wishes, we have pushed the 3rd postcard due date UP to this Thursday, April 25.

We have pushed BACK the final Milton essay; it is now due next Tuesday the 30.

The final remains due on Thursday, May 2.

Here are some notes on “Lycidas.” Perhaps they will speed up discussion of the obvious and allow us to get to the deeper material.

Here is the second Milton Take Home Examination, due in class on Thursday, May 2nd.

Quiz on Book 8

The story of the earth’s creation in “Genesis” is useful to read when reading books 7-8 of Paradise Lost. Google “genesis 1-3″ and read the biblical version. It won’t take long. When you do, note the break in the story telling: the story is told twice. See the break displayed here.

PL Bk 6 386-97

The rule for formatting titles is, “if the work is a full-length work, italicize the title; it the work is a piece of a larger whole, place the title in quotation marks.” So even though Milton’s great epic is a poem, the title should be italicized, not placed in quotation marks.

Thus, Paradise Lost.

TK

Punctuation of Verse

“The Answer”