EN 329 - Poetry and Drama, 1660-1800

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: EN 101 , one EN 200-level core course. A survey of poetry and drama from the Restoration through the end of the eighteenth century. Readings typically are from Congreve, Dryden, Etherege, Gay, Farquhar, Goldsmith, Johnson, Pope, Sheridan, Swift, Thomson, and Wycherly, with attention to both the development of drama following its suppression as well as satire and the sublime in poetry.