HBM - Blake the Prophet
CW: Poetic imagery of blood and gore, ravishing, and apocalyptic discussionToday we discuss the works of William Blake that don't usually make it into anthologies and undergraduate curricula - namely ...
7 Syys 2h 6min
HBM - Blake's Life, Times, and Songs
Today we kick off our discussion of William Blake with a little history catch-up, some discussion of his biography, and a [brief] analysis of the "Songs of Innocence and Experience," and the "Marriage...
2 Syys 2h 7min
HBM - Pardise Lost 9-10
Today we finish our discussion of Milton's Paradise Lost with a close examination of Books 9-10. Along the way we'll look at Satan's last chance to make peace with God, his rhetorical strategies to co...
1 Syys 1h 50min
HBM - Paradise Lost 5-8
Today we wrestle with the whole of Raphael's digressions from the central plot of Paradise Lost - the war of the angels in heaven, Milton's recapitulation of Genesis 1 and 2, and some interesting side...
25 Elo 1h 59min
HBM - Paradise Lost 3-5
Now that our discussion is officially behind our reading, let's take the opportunity to run through some of the main ideas in Books 3-5 of Paradise Lost, including Milton's (perhaps inconsistent) emph...
25 Elo 1h 57min
HBM - Renaissance Magic and Milton's War
Today we set out many of the topics we'll need to know in our ongoing study of British Magick - including the varieties of Magical practices common among Renaissance thinkers, some of the ideas of esp...
22 Elo 2h
HBM - Paradise Lost 1-2
Today we discuss the opening chapters of Milton's Paradise Lost, to ask ourselves: why do we find Satan so compelling in this poem? We'll discuss the reasons why Satan seems persuasive, as well as Mil...
20 Elo 1h 42min
