{"id":35132,"date":"2026-04-23T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35132"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:58:25","slug":"on-great-authors-of-the-western-literary-tradition-part-v-with-professor-susan-sage-heinzelman-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/23\/on-great-authors-of-the-western-literary-tradition-part-v-with-professor-susan-sage-heinzelman-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"On Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition Part V<\/i> with Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookWow, I’m relatively tearing through this set. I “just” finished up the previous binder, a 6 disc\/12 lecture set, last month<\/a>. And, with each as we get later into the canon, which spreads and broadens after antiquity, I think, “Man, I don’t think I will have read or will want to read many I’m about to hear about.” But in this set, I am wrong.<\/p>\n

This set is taught by Dr. Heinzelman, an Englishwoman whose accent was almost somnulent at the beginning, is subtitled “Neoclassical Literature and the 18th Century”.<\/p>\n

Individual lectures include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Moli\u00e8re<\/li>\n
  2. Jean Racine<\/li>\n
  3. Sister Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz<\/li>\n
  4. Daniel Defoe<\/li>\n
  5. Alexander Pope<\/li>\n
  6. Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n
  7. Voltaire<\/li>\n
  8. Jean-Jacques Rosseau<\/li>\n
  9. Samuel Johnson<\/li>\n
  10. Denis Diderot<\/li>\n
  11. William Blake<\/li>\n
  12. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sorry, I guess with a book quiz, I would have highlighted what I have read and would have posted links to what I have read in the last 20 years, but I didn’t. Allow me to say I just read<\/em> Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels<\/em> in 2016<\/a>. I thought I’d reviewed some Blake on the blog, but maybe I was thinking about Drawings of William Blake<\/a><\/em> in 2016 (also) or hearing a lecture on Blake in The Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets<\/a><\/em> last year (a recurring theme, as the next set kicks off with Wordsworth). I listened to Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment<\/a><\/em> in 2021, and my beautiful girlfriend (now wife) and I read Candide<\/em> to each other while courting (although she identified with Cunegonde, but my wife is beautiful and baked me little rhubarb pies to take to work when I was going to work in the 1900s). I read Robinson Crusoe<\/em> on my own in high school. I read Sor Juana de la Cruz…. In high school? In college? But en espa\u00f1ol<\/em> (so, of all the things we will cover\/will have covered in this lecture series, this will be the only non-native English writer I will have read in the original, although I remember only a bit\/concept). Also, no, no Moli\u00e8re, but to contrast Wisconsin with Missouri, at least we pronounce Racine correctly (even though many or most people up north do not know who Racine was). Also, although I did not read Faust in the original (I read Dr. Faustus<\/a><\/em> by Marlowe in 2020 and saw the opera form of it at Loretto-Hilton Center in St. Louis with that same beautiful girlfriend who would become my beautiful wife), I am almost there<\/em> in pronouncing Goethe<\/em> with the invisible R like an educated person.<\/p>\n

    So: I’ve read a bunch. I might need to look into my Classics Club editions to see what I can read from these authors (and authors from previous binders in this series). Hopefully, some Diderot. But I listened to this, and I came home from St. Louis, and I found a substack from Jack Baruth<\/a> quoting Samuel Johnson. So maybe I should pick up that volume, should I have it in the stacks, first. After all the other things, cheap and\/or deep, I have stacked up beside the chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wow, I’m relatively tearing through this set. I “just” finished up the previous binder, a 6 disc\/12 lecture set, last month. And, with each as we get later into the canon, which spreads and broadens after antiquity, I think, “Man, I don’t think I will have read or will want to read many I’m about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35134,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35132\/revisions\/35134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}