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History of European Literature. From the Greeks to the Romans, this is an introduction to Rome and Virgil’s Aeneid. Lecture 13

Comparative Literature, Great Books, History of European Lit, PoetryPeter HufnagelJuly 15, 2026

Paradise Lost

Milton’s Paradise Lost as an attempt to synthesize the Biblical and classical accounts of the Creation. Lecture

Fiction, Myths of Creation, Poetry, Great BooksVirginiaJune 10, 2024Myths and Creation, Paradise Lost

The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

This lecture analyzes Yeats as the poet of a Post-Nietzschean world, having rejected any vision of eternity and embraced human life as a series of historical cycles of creation and destruction; the lecture looks at the opposition between art and life in Yeats’s works and shows how he tries—but ultimately fails—to transcend it. Lecture

Poetry, Myths of CreationVirginiaJune 10, 2024Myths and Creation