Programme BMS 53
Saturday 12 March 2016
Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
11.00-12.30
Miklós Péti (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest), ‘Homeric Laughter in Paradise Lost’
Robert Cockcroft (Nottingham), ‘The significance of smiles in Paradise Lost (with reference back to Dante and Tasso)’
2.00-4.00
Joe Wallace (Birmingham), ‘Error and the Classical Tradition in Paradise Lost’
Liam Haydon (Kent), ‘Milton and the Corporation’.
The Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI) was founded by Act of Parliament in 1854, for ‘the Diffusion and Advancement of Science, Literature and Art amongst all Classes of Persons resident in Birmingham and the Midland Counties,’ and continues to pursue these aims. The BMI is located in the heart of Birmingham’s city centre, just a few minutes’ walk from Birmingham New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street railway stations:
Birmingham and Midland Institute
Margaret Street
Birmingham B3 3BS
Please follow this link for a map of the BMI’s location, and for further information about the BMI and its Library:http://bmi.org.uk/location.html
For further information about the British Milton Seminar, please contact either:
Professor Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk), or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk).
Hugh Adlington and Sarah M. Knight (Co-convenors)
Saturday 12 March 2016
Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute. There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
11.00-12.30
Miklós Péti (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest), ‘Homeric Laughter in Paradise Lost’
Robert Cockcroft (Nottingham), ‘The significance of smiles in Paradise Lost (with reference back to Dante and Tasso)’
2.00-4.00
Joe Wallace (Birmingham), ‘Error and the Classical Tradition in Paradise Lost’
Liam Haydon (Kent), ‘Milton and the Corporation’.
The Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI) was founded by Act of Parliament in 1854, for ‘the Diffusion and Advancement of Science, Literature and Art amongst all Classes of Persons resident in Birmingham and the Midland Counties,’ and continues to pursue these aims. The BMI is located in the heart of Birmingham’s city centre, just a few minutes’ walk from Birmingham New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street railway stations:
Birmingham and Midland Institute
Margaret Street
Birmingham B3 3BS
Please follow this link for a map of the BMI’s location, and for further information about the BMI and its Library:http://bmi.org.uk/location.html
For further information about the British Milton Seminar, please contact either:
Professor Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk), or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk).
Hugh Adlington and Sarah M. Knight (Co-convenors)
