Guest Lecture by Noel Pearson: One of the greatest productions of human art: John Milton’s Paradise Lost
| Start | 30 August 2017, 1:30pm |
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| End | 30 August 2017, 3:00pm |
A Guest Lecture in The Cairns Institute by Noel Pearson - One of the greatest productions of human art: John Milton’s Paradise LostWednesday 30 August 2017
1:30 – 3:00 pm
James Cook University | McGregor Rd, Smithfield QLD
Lecture Theatre D3.054
An argument by
Noel Pearson | Cape York Institute
John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost is one of the greatest productions of literature, equal to Homer, Shakespeare and Tolstoy, in my view greater. In this guest lecture I make argument about the sublimity of this colossal work of poetic genius, share my passion for this greatest of epics, and my contention no greater gift was given humankind than this work of art for which Milton received £5 upon its publication. Why would humans choose to live their allotted three score and ten years without receiving and knowing this gift? Time must come to pick it up again, for to not know Milton is the very definition of spiritual impoverishment and cruel self-abnegation.
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