First-Year Seminar Presents
"Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme":
The audacity of Paradise Lost
Monday, November 23, 2015
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Lianne Habinek,
Assistant Professor of English,
Bard College
Paradise Lost is an epic poem par excellence — an experiment in blank verse which treats the Creation and Fall of mankind, the battle between good and evil, and the machinations of Satan, one the most compelling poetic characters ever written. Yet the poem is also unabashedly ambitious, claiming (winkingly) that it will accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme,” not least of which is to reach back before the beginning of recorded Biblical history to be undeniably the first. What is at stake in this ambition? Could the real hero of this epic poem be its author himself?Assistant Professor of English,
Bard College
Free and open to the public.
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Time: 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater