We discuss "The Garden of Proserpine" and the ways that it anticipates or instantiates Freud's idea of the death drive: all the repetitions in the poem. Then we turn to the poet most opposite in attitude: Hopkins, and talk briefly of "Pied Beauty" and "That Nature is a Heralcitean Fire." Discussion in Instress and the Duns-Scotian term haecicity that makes it possible, as opposed to Thomas Aquainas' universality. We'll finish considering Hopkins next class.
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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