Stoll
Eng 328
Fall 2014
Milton
Monday 6:00-8:50
Serra 209
Numbers in parentheses refer to the The Modern Library Milton. Readings from the
xerox packet are marked by (xp).
Mon Sep 8
Introduction: Milton’s career; the sonnets
PARADISE LOST
Mon Sep 15
Books 1 & 2
paper due Fri noon
Mon Sep 22
Books 3 & 4
paper due Fri noon
Mon Sep 29
Books 5 & 6
paper due Fri noon
Mon Oct 6
Books 7 & 8
paper due Fri noon
Mon Oct 13
Books 9 & 10
paper due Fri noon
Mon Oct 20
Books 11 & 12
paper due Fri noon
EARLY POETRY
Mon Oct 27
“On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” (18); “On Shakespeare”
(34); “L’Allegro” (41); “Il Penseroso” (46); A Masque Presented
at Ludlow Castle (61), lines 1-330; Christopher Hill, “Milton’s
Personality” (xp)
Mon Nov 3
A Masque, lines 331-end; “Lycidas” (99); Sonnets 7, 12, 16, 18,
19, 23 (143-63); “On the New Forcers of Conscience” (163); “To
His Father” (220)
PROSE
Mon Nov 10 from Of Reformation (805-11);
Areopagitica (923);
Preface to Christian Doctrine (1140-4)
Mon Nov 17 from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1021);
Letter to Philaras (779);
The Ready and Easy Way (1111-36);
Christopher Hill, “Back to Egypt” (xp)
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES
Mon Nov 24 Luke 4:1-13 (xp)
PR, Books 1-4 (631)
Mon Dec 1
Judges 13-16 (xp)
SA, lines 1-1758
Mon Dec 8
Paper workshop
Final paper due Monday Dec 15: Founders 175, 6:00 pm
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GRADING
There are 200 points for the semester, divided as follows:
Short papers x 4
100
Final paper
60
Participation x 2
40
Plagiarism. All work must be original. All ideas and quotations culled from other sources
must be acknowledged. For more details on plagiarism, see the Undergraduate Bulletin.
Any student caught will receive a failing grade for the semester.
Course goals. This course of study has several aims, including: getting to know the
literature and its contexts; exercising reading and interpretive skills; developing facility in
literary discussion; improving essay writing.
OFFICE HOURS
Office:
Phone
Email:
Founders 175
x-7535
astoll@sandiego.edu
Monday
2:00 – 5:00
Tuesday
2:00 – 4:00
Or by appointment