Category Archives: Milton

Lending a Hand in Milton

Posted on 2009/03/19 by ngilmour

I finished a week of Paradise Lost today that went entirely too quickly. ?I know that some of the folks on the Milton-L listserv look with disdain on those Philistines who would teach excerpts from the poem without taking it … Continue reading →

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MILTON!! I’m teaching MILTON!!

Posted on 2009/03/17 by ngilmour

I know this shouldn’t be this big an event (or perhaps it should!), but I taught my first lesson on Paradise Lost today.? It’s rather goofy, I admit, that someone who’s writing a dissertation heavily focused on Milton has taught … Continue reading →

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Milton’s 400th

Posted on 2008/12/09 by ngilmour

I just hope I look as good when I get to be 400. I would like to keep my eyesight, though.? No guarantees there, though–I’m spending the day grading freshman portfolios. Happy Birthday, Milton.

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Educating to Repair the Fall

Posted on 2008/10/21 by ngilmour

We took on Milton’s “On Education” today, and although it took some prodding, eventually both classes were impressed with the sheer audacity of Milton’s claims (even before he gets to the 41 or so practices, languages, and bodies of knowledge … Continue reading →

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The Joys of Out-of-Date Scholarship

Posted on 2008/09/20 by ngilmour

I’ve been cranking away at my chapter on Milton’s Satan the last couple days, and I’ve found that the older books on the topic are much more helpful for my project.? Peter A. Fiore’s 1981 book Milton and Augustine in … Continue reading →

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Just when I get good and fed up with Stanley Fish…

Posted on 2008/07/14 by ngilmour

He puts out a column like this one and makes me like him again. Happy Birthday, Milton He really puts his finger on why I remain a Miltonist first and a Shakespearean second when he gets to what people want … Continue reading →

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More Democratic than they Realize

Posted on 2007/10/23 by ngilmour

We discussed Milton’s “On Education” today, and both classes did a great job seeing the stark differences between Plato’s highly specialized/aristocratic society and Milton’s strongly democratic notion that everyone should learn to farm, to fight, to litigate, to heal, and … Continue reading →

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On Education and the End of the Semester

Posted on 2006/11/21 by ngilmour

We wrapped up the discussion part of the semester yesterday with a conversation about John Milton’s treatise “On Education.” As I usually do when I teach that fun little text, I started by having the class list all of the … Continue reading →

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