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Major Authors: John Milton, Spring 2008
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- Abstract:
In 1667, John Milton published what he intended both as the crowning achievement of a poetic career and a justification of God's ways to man: an epic poem which retold and reimagined the Biblical story of creation, temptation, and original sin. Even in a hostile political climate, Paradise Lost was almost immediately recognized as a classic, and one fate of a classic is to be rewritten, both by admirers and by antagonists. In this seminar, we will read Paradise Lost alongside works of 20th century fantasy and science fiction which rethink both Milton's text and its source.
- Subject:
- Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare