Department of English
This course is a survey of British poetry from Milton to the Romantics. We will read poems closely while keeping the larger questions of the changing social functions of poetry in view. Poets will include: Milton, Rochester, Behn, Pope, Barbauld, Wordsworth, Blake, Percy Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, Christina Rossetti, and Hopkins. We will also read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and parts of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. The class will involve discussion; journals; and two papers.
fulfills requirements
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major
Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major