ENGL 2020 - The English Literary Tradition II

(LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

D. Fried.

One of the richest and most delightful traditions in world literature, the English literary tradition is the foundation of all other literature written in English. Gulliver and “Goblin Market,” Jane Austen and “Jabberwocky”: you can bet your favorite authors writing in English today read and re-read these classics. This course surveys 250 years of English poetry and prose from the sly wit of the 1700s and the beguiling meditations and bizarre silliness of the Romantic and Victorian periods to the bitter war requiems and renewed myth-making of modernism. Lectures and weekly discussion sections teach close reading and other skills needed for in-depth literary study. Authors may include Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and others.