Education:Courses
Pope: Essay on Criticism concluded, Eloisa to Abelard and Rape of the Lock begun
2010-10-24
10/21/10 Conclusion of analysis of Pope's pyrotechnical mimesis in the Essay on Criticism; exposition of the difference between rules (artificially formulated and imposed) and laws (discovered in nature and in the poets who discovered them in nature); consideration of the variety of his tones; analysis of the conclusion of Eloisa to Abelard with her describing how later people like Pope will write poems in her voice; beginning of an account of Rape of the Lock, including the relation of mock to serious epic as being in some ways like the relation between true criticism and poetry.
view more
More Episodes
Infinity 8: Philosophical questions
2012-10-10
926
2012-10-10
926
Infinity 7: Aristotle and the reality of space and time
2012-10-04
972
2012-10-04
972
Parmenides, Anaximander, Hilbert, the Fifth Postulate
2012-10-01
975
2012-10-01
975
Infinity 5: Extension and intension and interesting numbers
2012-09-22
966
2012-09-22
966
Sets and counting
2012-09-20
926
2012-09-20
926
Infinity 3: God's Point of View
2012-09-13
962
2012-09-13
962
Infinity 2: Borges
2012-09-10
1.1k
2012-09-10
1.1k
First class on Thinking About Infinity
2012-09-05
1.2k
2012-09-05
1.2k
Last class - Milton
2012-05-04
1.2k
2012-05-04
1.2k
Last class on Merrill's Book of Ephraim
2012-05-02
938
2012-05-02
938
Marvell
2012-05-02
935
2012-05-02
935
Ephraim 4/26/12
2012-04-29
669
2012-04-29
669
Satan, God, Adam and Eve
2012-04-25
705
2012-04-25
705
Keeping them down on the farm
2012-04-25
677
2012-04-25
677
Ephraim 4/23/12
2012-04-24
669
2012-04-24
669
Book of Ephraim, con't 4/19/12
2012-04-21
581
2012-04-21
581
Milton
2012-04-19
705
2012-04-19
705
Book of Ephraim, con't 4/18/12
2012-04-19
594
2012-04-19
594
Paradise Lost introduced yet once more
2012-04-19
713
2012-04-19
713
Who or what we took Ephraim to Be
2012-04-19
563
2012-04-19
563
Get this podcast on your
phone, FREE
