ENG 23 - Milton

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Together with Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton is one of the three giants of English literature. He is perhaps more challenging than the other two to readers in this century because he deals directly with a wealth of cultural and religious knowledge that is no longer familiar to the educated reader in the way he could expect it to be in his own day. And unlike the other major figures, he addresses an educated audience exclusively. Indeed, he has perhaps co-opted even the biblical heritage in some ways since his vision of the fall of the bad angels has become part of the popular imagination, supplanting the curious surrealism of the Book of Revelation itself. And he is the paramount influence in the subsequent history of poetry in English until Hopkins. Furthermore, he was a practical man of his age intimately involved with the political and religious upheavals of the tumultuous seventeenth century. He is among the earliest advocates of no-fault divorce, and he left a private theological work with a rationalist view of Scripture that is centuries ahead of its time. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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