ENGL 4630 - British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic, Spring 2005

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Instructor: Levi Peterson, Ph. D.

Course Structure: Three 50-minute classes per week

Level: Undergraduate

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This historical survey links two periods: the first has frequently been referred to as the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century and includes such figures as Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Mary Montagu, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson. The second period covers the relatively short but intense age of English Romanticism -- popular because of such writers as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey, and John Keats.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Citation: admin. (2005, November 10). British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic. Retrieved November 22, 2009, from WSU Web site: http://ocw.weber.edu/English/british-literature.
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