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First real class on Spenser, with attention to Milton

Published: Jan. 23, 2011, 7:29 p.m.

This is the first real class of the semester.\xa0 We think a little bit about what allegory would mean, for Spenser and for Milton, by starting out with a reading of Milton's Sonnet 23 ("Methought I saw my late espous\xe9d saint") -- the allegorical appearance of love, sweetness, goodness in her person.\xa0 In Spenserian and Miltonic allegory, it's not that figures who are present represent abstractions: it's that abstraction becomes present as and in the other person.\xa0 Sort of Levinasian, though I don't say so in the Podcast.