Prof. Karen Karbiener on Milton's Paradise Lost

[rodanosamehr]

I've heard Karen before and let me tell you she knows her stuff--don't let the cute face deceive you this woman has done her research and offers cogent insights into her topics

[wahcenter]

Interesting comments. These videos of Prof. Karbiener's lecture are just a small part of a larger lecture. This edited version shows only sections that the editor liked. Also this was a lecture for the general public not for students or scholars...it had to take a different tack.

[theLadidah]

It's general knowledge that Milton completed 'Paradise Lost' considerably earlier than 1667, as you suggest. Most people agree that it was completed in the late 1650s almost 10 years before it was published.

Also, most of the Romantic poets avoided Milton. Blake obviously explored the figure of Satan most substantially, but otherwise, they wanted to establish their own category that was different to what had already passed. Wordsworth and Coleridge were keen on thinking differently.

[theLadidah]

@theLadidah (continued) I appreciate you also don't have much time here, but it's probably important to contextualise Milton as he was a radical thinker, but he was not alone and this was at a time when Royalists and Aristocrats were losing and reclaiming power, so when initially he was not in danger, but became threatened by the very Protestant Royals.

These are just a few things I feel neede to be said in response to your video.

[mendus59]

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[josephferrerosa34]

Milton's book is not that hard of a read, in fact, it's one of the most and simple and basic stories of all time. It's also hexadrometral literature and therefore it deals with the story of Creation yet it's not neccesarily all about religion. In many ways it also reflects his life and times and the politics of pre-Restoration/Cromwellian government.

[dybbuk4640]

milton's poem was a reflection of religion rather than a reflection of life. and if art is a reflection of life, then how can paradise lost, a reiteration of myth, be called art and milton an artist rather than a propagandist?