A playlist exploring the English Reformation with particular focus on martyrdom, examining why Protestants and Catholics were burned for their faith during the Tudor period.
An examination of the English Reformation from Henry VIII’s break with Rome through the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, tracing the shift from Catholicism to Protestantism.
The second part of an analysis of Milton’s Lycidas, exploring its themes of fame, religious consolation, and the place of the poem in Milton’s development as a poet.
The first part of an analysis of Milton’s Lycidas, examining the poem’s pastoral conventions, its elegiac structure, and Milton’s meditation on the death of a fellow poet.
A reading of Milton’s Lycidas, one of the great elegies in English literature, mourning the death of Edward King and meditating on fame, grief, and religious faith.