Brit Lit Vol. IV - Paradise Lost

Brit Lit is a fully annotated, year-long course which guides high-school readers to the important questions in the greatest British classics.

Look Inside the Book

This British Literature series covering classic English authors from Beowulf to P. G. Wodehouse is unique: Each volume of Logos Press's Brit Lit volumes gives you both the unabridged primary sources and the complete reference tools that teachers and students would need during a year-long British Literature class. No more flipping back and forth between reference books and dog-eared thrift editions: For the first time, the classroom helps and the classics themselves are interwoven for classical & Christian schools. Selected and edited by Rebekah Merkle, a veteran teacher at Logos School in Moscow, ID.

Each volume includes daily reading schedules; engaging comprehension questions for every day's reading with detailed answers; introductory essays highlighting themes and offering a Christian perspective; page-by-page, on-the-spot marginalia offering explanations, context, and important notes; memorization for 200 lines of poetry over the year; 90 integrative assignments and supplementary poems in the Poetry Workbook; and comprehensive end-of-volume tests over readings from the Workbook.

This volume includes Paradise Lost, and assigns selections from Addison, Steele, Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, John Donne, and George Herbert. Volume X: Poetry Handbook covers how to write epigrams and Horatian and Juvenalian satire, and how to turn a Scripture passage into poetry a lá Milton. These selections can be found in Volume X: Poetry Workbook.

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