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MIT OpenCourseWare
Major Authors: John Milton
- Instructor
- Prof. Mary Fuller
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 readings · 17 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.705 Major Authors: John Milton, Spring 2008, Prof. Mary Fuller — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Readings
- Genesis 1-5 Download
- Areopagitica Download
- Selected Bibliography Download
- Outline Nyquist Download
- Ramus Download
Assignments
Study Materials
10 files
- Early Editions: 1667a Download
- Early editions: 1668a Download
- Early Editions: 1668b Download
- Early Editions: 1674 Download
- Genesis 32 Download
- Essential Backgrounds for Reading Milton Download
- The Golden Compass: Sources for Pullman's Title Download
- Donne's Sonnet on the Death of Death Download
- What Happens in Paradise Lost Download
- Paradise Lost V Fish Download
Course outline
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Lecture 5: Lewis, Perelandra , chapters 1-8
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Lecture 6: Paradise Lost , book III Empson, “Heaven”
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Lecture 7: Lewis, Perelandra , chapters 9-16 Quiz
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Lecture 8: Paradise Lost , book IV Nyquist, “Gynesis, Genesis, Exegesis,” parts i-iv
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Lecture 9: Paradise Lost , book IV (cont.) Nyquist, parts v-vii
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Lecture 10: Paradise Lost , book V Fish, “The Milk of the Pure Word”
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Lecture 11: Pullman, Golden Compass
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Lecture 12: Paradise Lost , book VI Kerrigan, “‘One First Matter All’: Spirit as Energy”
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Lecture 13: Pullman, Golden Compass (cont.) Lewalski, “ Paradise Lost and Milton’s Politics”
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Lecture 14: Paradise Lost , book VII Rumrich, “Uninventing Milton” ———, “Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy”
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Lecture 15: Paradise Lost , book VIII Gross, “Satan and Romantic Satan”
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Lecture 16: Paradise Lost , book IX Flesch, “The Majesty of Darkness”
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Lecture 17: Pullman, Subtle Knife
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Lecture 18: Paradise Lost , book X Parker, “Eve, Evening, and the Labor of Reading” in Paradise Lost
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Lecture 19: Pullman, Subtle Knife (cont.)
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Lecture 21: Paradise Lost , book XI Grossman, “Milton’s Dialectical Vision”
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Lecture 22: Pullman, Amber Spyglass
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