A survey of the major movements and figures of English literature from the mid-seventeenth century through the nineteenth century: Neo-classicism, Romanticism, and Victorianism; and such authors as Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, and the Brownings. The course looks at how artistic forms and strategies change over time and also at how the language and style of the text engage political and social concerns along with inward, individual life. Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: class participation, weekly blackboard responses, two 4- to 6-page papers, an hour test, and a final exam. Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 25 (expected: 25). (1700-1900)

Hour: S. GRAVER