Probably there is no greater booster for John Milton than William Blake, who begins his long poem on Milton with an exclamation asking the Muses to “Record the journey of immortal Milton thro’ your Realms / Of terror & mild moony lustre, in soft sexual delusions / Of varied beauty, to delight the wanderer and repose / His burning thirst & freezing hunger!” Readings for this course will include Lycidas, Comus, and Paradise Lost. There will be one long paper and several shorter responses.