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Tag Archives: John Milton
Reading Lit through the Eyes of Others
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Paradise Lost (Scott Bates’ Mole Version)
Scott Bates’ animal fable about an epic mole parodies “Paradise Lost” and provides a skeptical look at poetry and religion.
Warning Labels for the Classics
Suggestions that certain classics come with “trigger warnings” leads of the following reflection.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged censorship, Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Iliad, Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Paradise Lost, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wife of Bath Comments closed
Milton Would Call Paul Ryan a Wolf
Paul Ryan’s hypocrisy about the poor deserves a Miltonian rebuke.
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Last of Mohicans–America’s Great Epic?
An argument that “Last of the Mohicans” is the great American epic that 19th-century authors were striving to write.
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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck Comments closed
A Haiku for New Year’s Perspective
Kobayashi Issa’s New Year’s Day haiku provides a healthy perspective.
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Satan Strikes Again, This Time in Aurora
The shootings in Aurora, Colorado call forth literary works about evil stalking the world, including “Beowulf” and “Paradise Lost.”
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