Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for the Humanities and organized by Michael Lieb, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, April 22, at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Welcome
Robert Remini, UIC Institute for the Humanities
Richard Brown, The Newberry Library
Session 1
Comus and Lycidas: The Style as Argument
C. A. Patrides, University of Michigan
Justice for Margery Evans: The Lilieu of Milton’s Comus
Leah Marcus, University of Illinois at Chicago (now at Vanderbilt University)
Commentator
David Zesmer, Illinois Institute of Technology (now emeritus)
Saturday, April 23, at the Newberry Library
Session 2
Milton as Prose Writer
John Shawcross, University of Kentucky
Milton on the Book of Revelation
Michael Murrin, University of Chicago
Commentator
Kenneth Knoespel, University of Chicago (now at Georgia Institute of Technology)
Session 3
The Transfiguration and Paradise Lost
Albert Labriola, Duquesne University
Another Image of That Horror: Samson Agonistes and the Tragedy of Apocalypse
Joseph Wittreich, Jr., University of Maryland
Concluding remarks
Jean Hagstrum, Northwestern University
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