Waterstones
68-69 Hampstead High Street, London, NW3 1QPWednesday 20 November de 18:00 à 19:00
£6
(1 autre option disponible)Join us for an evening with Orlando Reade, author of What In Me Is Dark, in conversation with Joe Moshenska, professor of English and Comparative Literature at University College, Oxford, exploring the influence of Milton's Paradise Lost, perhaps the most influential poems ever written in English.Drawing on his own experiences of teaching literature in prisons, Orlando Reade focuses on twelve unexpected readers – from Malcolm X to Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt to Thomas Jefferson – whose lives and works have shaped our world. He shows the many different, surprising and often contradictory ways in which Milton’s poem has been read across centuries and continents.Boldly original, lively and far-reaching, What in Me Is Dark is the story of how a work of literature born in the ashes of a failed revolution became an indelible part of the modern imagination. Reade guides us through the epic, exploring how Milton came to write its dark and dazzling poetry, and offering a new account of its radical, ever-evolving legacy.