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  • 14/09/2023
Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD - but through a turbulent friendship with a charming man awakens to the possibility of love.
Transcript
00:00 Would it be wishful thinking to assume that some of you have learnt the first 83 lines
00:09 of Paradise Lost by Heart?
00:14 You are studying the Romantics, are you not?
00:18 And you cannot hope to understand them without John Milton.
00:23 True, he predates Blake Wordsworth and Coleridge by a hundred years, but his shadow looms over
00:31 them.
00:32 And it is my distinct privilege to see that you are fully acquainted with him.
00:39 I'm so sorry.
00:39 (laughs)