ENG 320 Studies in Literary Modes: English Romanticism
Romanticism in all of its aspects and manifestations roared across Europe
and America in the latter years of the 18th and first half of the 19th
centuries. This course examines the poetry and prose of the major English
Romantic writers and the development and elaboration of the romantic
movement in England roughly during the years 1790 to 1840. We will read
widely in the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and
Keats with some attention to the shift from neo-classic to romantic poetic
forms and critical premises and particular emphasis on the romantic
imagination and its legacy, including its relevance to the contemporary
world. This course is offered in the fall semester.
Credits: 1