[Milton-L] Teaching with Lewalski's _Life_

[Eric B. Song]

Dear Miltonists,

I'd like to solicit advice and pedagogical anecdotes from those of you who 
have used Lewalski's _Life of Milton_ in undergraduate courses. I'm about to 
teach a Milton seminar for the first time in the fall, and I'm tentatively 
planning on assigning four or five selections from the biography throughout 
the semester. I'm a bit nervous, though, that what I find eloquent and 
readable accounts of Milton's life and political milieu will strike my 
students as discouragingly confusing and arcane.

Thanks in advance,

Eric B. Song
Department of English
University of Virginia
ericsong at virginia.edu