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Re: Well, if I'd found really all of those Heaven books boring, I'm not sure I'd have finished it. Camilla Send a noteboard - 13/01/2011 10:32:49 PM
I've had several grad classes on religious history, including a couple on Early Modern English cultural/religious history, so I'm going to be drawn into noticing those things and to find them to be quite fascinating and far from tedious. That's where I figured we'd disagree, since the theological arguments intrigue me, particularly how Milton worked them in throughout his lines.

So at the various points where he was clearly taking a stance on a theological issue, I did notice that, even if I don't have the religious history background to know much about those issues, and I suppose those held a certain amount of interest to me, yes. Unfortunately he has a tendency of beating you around the head with it and going on about the things at length.

And what about the astronomy bit? Did you find that quite fascinating too?


I wonder whether Yates might have a good reading about that section. She groups Milton and Shakespeare with Spenser as a pro-renaissance writer whose sympathies lie with the esoteric tendencies of protestantism. And when she talks about Spenser she makes a lot of noise about his use of the planets. It did not occur to me to think of it before, so I don't know whether it would fit, but it might be interesting.
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