LEARNING TO READ BIG BOOKS: DANTE, SPENSER, MILTON

Learning to Read Big Books: Dante, Spenser, Milton

The interpretive challenges posed by dense and lengthy poems such as Dante’s Inferno, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost can prove daunting for the average undergraduate reader whose experience of texts has been circumscribed by pedagogical mandates focused on reading for information.While information-retrieval ba

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