[Milton-L] Renaissance course tips

[Margaret Thickstun]

I like this edited version.  Do you teach all of 3? 

When I "sample," I excerpt radically--Book 9 from the Separation 
Colloquy through Adam's eating--to read with/against Lucy Hutchinson, 
Amelia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, and Margaret Fell.  By doing that, I can 
reinforce the point that this is an excerpt, not an encapsulation of the 
whole thing.  It's like reading just the first chapter of Pride and 
Prejudice--to get the flavor of the narrative voice.  The students know 
they haven't read the whole story.

I also pair the description of Eden with Jonson's "To Penshurst" and 
Satan's Niphates soliloquy with Spenser's Despair, Herbert's "The 
Collar," Bunyan's Man in the Iron Cage--even more clearly "not the whole 
story."

Boyd M Berry/FS/VCU wrote:
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> with school-teachers in summers), I've used books 3 and 4, 9 and 10.  
> These are the books about humans, for one thing, and they are 
> symmetrical as well.  We get "the plan" and A and E conversing, then 
> the fall and reorientation in 10.
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