For tens of thousands of years, humans have used imaginary tools to shape the world and communicate with one another. 4,000 years ago people began to write down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient epics to modern novels. How did literature develop? What forms has it taken? And what can we learn from engaging with these works today?
Hosted by Jack Wilson, an amateur scholar with a lifelong passion for literature. Literary history It offers a fresh look at some of the most compelling examples of creative genius the world has ever known.
The early modern poets John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Emilia Lanier, and Abraham Cowley lived in worlds where theological questions were as fiercely contested as political battles over empire, gender, civil war, and poetic authority.The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature) talks about how poets have used theological notions of grace to reimagine political community; Mike Palindrome shares with Jack his admiration for James Baldwin and his work; and Carlos Allende (Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love) tells Jack about the book he chose as the last one he would read.
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