ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1800 (CL2051)

Begins with Old English literary texts, then examines selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the conventions of Middle English drama and lyrics, earlier Renaissance styles of lyric poetry (Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney), and then Shakespeare's sonnets and a major Shakespeare play. Reviews the dominant styles of Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry (Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling, Waller, Milton).

Code:

CL2051

Name:

ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1800

Discipline:

CL (Comparative Literature)

Type:

Regular

Level:

Undergraduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

None

Co-requisites:

None

Equivalencies:

ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1800 (EN2051)

Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate knowledge of the formal resources of English literature before 1800 with particular attention paid to prosody, and of the historical distribution of those resources
Show a capacity to describe and analyse literary texts in relation to their formal features and historical context, informed by a basic knowledge of existing scholarship in the field and drawing responsibly and creatively on appropriate theoretical materials

ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1800 (CL2051)

Learning Outcomes

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