Please join the online seminar jointly hosted by the British Milton Seminar and Andrew Marvell Society via Zoom on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2.00 pm (BST) / 9.00 am (EDT) for the schedule of papers below. All are warmly welcome to attend.
There will be two sessions, as follows:
Session 1: 14:00–15:30 (BST) / 9:00–10:30 (EDT)
Ruby Lowe (Melbourne), ‘Milton’s Open Door: Print Oratory and Freedom of Speech in 17th-century England’
Stephen Hequembourg (Magen David Yeshivah, NYC), ‘The Poetry of Falling Bodies: Galileo, Gravity, and Satan’s Fall’
Break: 15:30–16:00 (BST) / 10:30–11:00 (EDT): offline.
Session 2: 16:00–17:30 (BST) / 11:00–12:30 (EDT)
Emma Wilson (Southern Methodist University), ‘Milton’s Orphic Logic: Looking Back to Homer and Forward to Eliot’
Emanuel Stelzer (Verona), ‘Two 1634 Comuses: Milton’s Masque and a Ballet at the Turinese Court’
**Please note that advance registration is required. Click here to register.**
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link for the meeting.
We very much look forward to welcoming you on the day.
Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk) and Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk) (Joint convenors, British Milton Seminar)
Christopher D’Addario (President, Andrew Marvell Society)
