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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 1h 42min
HBM - Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphica
Today we get as close as we're going to get to reading actual magical grimoires and practical magic instruction - we're looking at three famous texts with differing relationships to the Judeo-Christia...
19 Aug 1h 49min
HBM - The Story of the New Testament (Canon)
Today we discuss how the New Testament came to be: first, by looking at the historical evidences surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, then by examining the complicated and confusing world of writers and wri...
18 Aug 1h 46min
