milton, blake, and god
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Harasz lecture on Milton, Blake, and God.TRANSCRIPT
WHO WAS JOHN MILTON?
1608-1674
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and The New Reform
Army
Aeropagitica 1644
Paradise Lost 1667
Blank Verse and Religious Traditions
The Verse “The Measure is English Heroic Verse
without Rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; the Rhyme being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age…”
Poetry and Theodicy
Instruct me for thou know’st; Thou from the first/ Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread/ Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss/ And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support;/ That to the heighth of this great Argument/ I may assert Eternal Providence/ and justify the ways of God to men.
Milton’s Godhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iZhLDo09D68
God’s “Umpire Conscience”“Thus while God spake,ambrosial fragrancefill’d / All Heaven”
Some I have chose of peculiar Grace/ Elect above the rest; So is my will: / The rest shall Hear me call…/ To pray, repent, And bring obedience due… / And I will place within them as a guide/ My Umpire Conscience…To expiate his Treason…The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
The Romantic Obsession with Paradise Lost
William Blake: Engraver, Poet, Painter, Visionary 1757-1827
Blake’s Illustrations of Milton’s Paradise Lost
Emanuel Swedenborg and Blake
1688-1772
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Text-Image & Laocoön
Blake’s God & Popular Culturehttp://Johnny Depp- William Blake
Blake and Allen Ginsberg
http://Blake and Ginsberg
http://Nurse's Song
http://Howl