A lot of greats to do in a single day, and not wanting to miss Eliot we begin with a little contextualization of three of the sonnets from "Brother and Sister," then move on to a few grim Hardy poems, and then to Hopkins: "As kingfishers catch fire" compared with one of the "terrible sonnets," "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day."
Paradise Lost, III
Paradise Lost, II
First class on Paradise Lost
Comus, rape, and freedom
Lycidas, concluded, and Comus
Contrasts and debates in Milton
First class on Milton: Lycidas
Scopophilia and narrative
More on Book VI as Pastoral
Variety and uniformity
Justice and Courtesy
Varieties of justice
The Temple of Venus
The friend as second self in Book 4
Faerie Queene, Book IV: Love and Friendship
Matter and form in the Garden of Adonis
What it's like to live in the Land of Faery
Amoret and Belphoebe, and what the House of Busirane is for
More on Book 3
Faerie Queene III Britomart and allegory
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