ENGL 314 Renaissance Poetry
This course examines the poetry and poetics of the English Renaissance, emphasizing the relationship between formal developments in poetic techniques and questions of religious belief, gender, labor, race, education, and politics. Readings include classical and humanist poetic and rhetorical theory (from Plato to Puttenham) and a wide range of poets, including Thomas Wyatt, Anne Locke, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Mary Wroth, and Katherine Philips, as well as some consideration of the influence Renaissance verse has had on modern poets (such as T.S. Eliot, Frank O'Hara, and Marilyn Nelson).
Major Requirement Met: Group I
Prerequisite
One 200-level English class