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Paradise Lost
edX
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2020 · score 1.0
A free Dartmouth-run edX course (DartmouthX ENGL.02X) that guides readers through John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, covering its themes and the political ideas in the text.
Commenters say it helped them interpret the poem, with one saying it revealed political nuances like free will, tyranny, and civil liberty that they had missed.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerfreevideo lectures#john milton#paradise lost#english literature#literary interpretation#epic poetry
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If you haven't read it already and need help interpreting it, you can take this free course on edx.
https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:DartmouthX+DART.EN...
I took this course to understand what the whole fuss around 'Paradise Lost' meant. I was utterly mind-blown, learning its snide references to free will, tyranny, slavery, civil liberty, etc. in the poem. What I once thought was a retelling of the Bible, surprised me with its political nuances.